Tracking progress in patient safety: An elusive target

Article Abstract:

A potential method is described by which hospitals can measure their progress in patient safety, highlighting the commonalities and differences between safety and quality measurement. Robust information technology systems are needed to promote efficient measurement and feedback at various levels of healthcare, and such coordinated efforts could result in national estimates of specific safety measures, providing data at a national level to determine whether patients are safer.

General services, Care and treatment, Safety and security measures

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Excess length of stay, charges, and mortality attributable to medical injuries during hospitalization

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Hospital patients who develop a medical condition just from being hospitalized will spend more time in the hospital and have higher hospital bills and higher death rates, according to a study of 7 million hospital patients treated in 994 hospitals in 28 US states. Injuries following childbirth had the lowest impact on length of stay, costs, and mortality and postoperative infections had the highest impact.

Health aspects, Economic aspects, Postoperative complications, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Hospital stays, Death of

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Potentially inappropriate medication use in the community-dwelling elderly: Findings from the 1996 medical expenditure panel survey. (Original Contribution)

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Some elderly people are using drugs that are not appropriate for elderly patients, according to a survey of 2,455 elderly people participating in the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Twenty-one percent had been given at least one of 33 potentially inappropriate drugs.

Statistical Data Included, Drugs, Statistics, Prescriptions (Drugs), Medication errors

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