Chartbook on Patient Safety | AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

Chartbook on Patient Safety | AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

Chartbook on Patient Safety

Description

This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety. 

The chartbook includes the following sections: 

• Patient safety
• Summary
• Patient safety measures
• Patient safety in the hospital setting
• Patient safety in the nursing home setting
• Patient safety in the home health setting
• Patient safety in the ambulatory setting
• Patient safety infrastructure

Links to the QualityTool:

• This tool is available at:

  http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/patientsafety/index.html

Developer:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Funding Sources:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

History

Release Date: 2016

Date Verified: 05/10/16

Original Summary: May 2016

Last Updated: 05/10/16

QualityTool Classification

Patient safety

Disparities reduction

Quality measurement, benchmarking, data feedback

Report

Benchmarking/comparative data

Quality improvement strategies