Are Patient Safety Indicators Related to Widely Used Measures of Hospital Quality?

AHRQ Quality Indicators Guide to Patient Safety Indicators

Preface In health care as in other arenas, that which cannot be measured is difficult to improve. Providers, consumers, policy makers, and others seeking to improve the quality of health care need accessible, reliable indicators of quality that they can use to flag potential problems or successes; follow trends over time; and identify disparities across regions, communities, and providers. As n...

AHRQ Quality Indicators Guide to Patient Safety Indicators

Preface In health care as in other arenas, that which cannot be measured is difficult to improve. Providers, consumers, policy makers, and others seeking to improve the quality of health care need accessible, reliable indicators of quality that they can use to flag potential problems or successes; follow trends over time; and identify disparities across regions, communities, and providers. As n...

AHRQ Quality Indicators Guide to Patient Safety Indicators

Preface In health care as in other arenas, that which cannot be measured is difficult to improve. Providers, consumers, policy makers, and others seeking to improve the quality of health care need accessible, reliable indicators of quality that they can use to flag potential problems or successes; follow trends over time; and identify disparities across regions, communities, and providers. As n...

Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data--The Patient Safety Indicators: Technical Review, No. 5

Swimmer illness associated with marine water exposure and water quality indicators: impact of widely used assumptions.

BACKGROUND Studies of health risks associated with recreational water exposure require investigators to make choices about water quality indicator averaging techniques, exposure definitions, follow-up periods, and model specifications; however, investigators seldom describe the impact of these choices on reported results. Our objectives are to report illness risk from swimming at a marine beach...