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The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) provide information on potentially avoidable safety events that represent opportunities for improvement in the delivery of care. More specifically, they focus on potential in-hospital complications and adverse events following surgeries, procedures, and childbirth.
The CMS PSI 90 measure summarizes patient safety across multiple indicators, monitors performance over time, and facilitates comparative reporting and quality improvement at the hospital level.
The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are a set of 26 indicators (including 18 provider-level indicators) developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to provide information on safety-related adverse events occurring in hospitals following operations, procedures, and childbirth.
Patient safety indicators can be viewed as a subset of tools that are designed to assess the frequency, severity, and impact of measurable harm in health care, both within health care organizations and at the health care system, regional, and national levels.
The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are a set of measures that screen for adverse events that patients experience as a result of exposure to the health care system. These events are likely amenable to prevention by changes at the system or provider level.
Quality Indicator User Guide: Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) Composite Measures, v2022 Version 2022 Page 1 July 2022 1.0 Overview The goal in developing the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators™ (QI) composite measures was to provide a measure that could be used to monitor performance over time
The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) The PSIs are a set of quality measures that use hospital inpatient discharge data to provide a perspective on patient safety. 13 Specifically, the PSIs identify problems that patients experience through contact with the health care system and that are likely amenable to prevention by implementing system ...
The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI Toolkit) is a free and easy-to-use resource for hospitals planning to use the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), including the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), to track and improve inpatient quality and patient safety.
The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) represent quality measures that make use of a hospital's available administrative data. The PSIs reflect the quality of inpatient care but also focus on preventable complications and iatrogenic events.
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