AHRQ Patient Safety Network: 'Connecting the dots': leveraging visual analytics to make sense of patient safety event reports.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network



'Connecting the dots': leveraging visual analytics to make sense of patient safety event reports.

Ratwani RM, Fong A. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Oct 21; [Epub ahead of print].

This commentary describes the design and development of hospital-level and system-level dashboardsrepresenting data from patient safety event reporting systems as a way to reduce the burden of analyzing internal incident reports, increase awareness of adverse event trends, and enable utilization of the data to inform improvement.

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