title: Patient Safety and Quality Metrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.
abstract: Quality-based regulations, performance-based payouts, and open reporting have contributed to a growing focus on quality and safety metrics in health care. Medical errors are a well-known catastrophe in the field. Especially disturbing are estimates of pediatric safety issues, which hold a stronger capacity to cause serious issues than those found in adults. This article presents information collected in the past 2 decades pertaining to the issue of quality, and describes a preliminary list of potential solutions and methods of implementation. The beginning stages of a reconstructive journey of safety and quality in a Michigan pediatric hospital is introduced and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, 3901 Beaubien Street, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. Electronic address: bkumar@dmc.org.
authors.forename: Bhanumathy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D064416:Hospital Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors; D008824:Michigan; D061214:Patient Safety; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Medical errors; Multidisciplinary approach; Patient safety; Pediatric hospital medicine; Quality