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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.
AHRQ offers free software to help organizations easily use the AHRQ QIs to generate actionable information about the quality of care they provide. The evidence-based AHRQ QIs provide a standard, trusted approach to quality measurement to guide improvements in patient care.
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QI) Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) software. The numerators, denominators, and observed rates shown in this document are based on an analysis of discharge data from the 2019, 2020, and 2021 AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SID).
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.
Their report recommends “advanced indicators” of patient safety outcomes such as avoidable deaths due to health care-associated venous thromboembolism, sepsis, or patient falls; in-hospital pressure ulcers; and ventilator-associated pneumonia incidents.
Patient Safety and Quality Measures. Quality improvement measurement tools and information, including AHRQ Quality Indicators Hospital Toolkit, ambulatory clinical performance measures, and TalkingQuality. National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions. Surveys on Patient Safety Culture.
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.
AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) focus on measuring if potentially preventable complications occurred during a patient’s procedure or hospital stay and include measures such as accidental punctures/lacerations during a procedure or inpatient fall with a hip fracture.
Patient Safety Indicators—. Can be used to help hospitals and health care organizations assess, monitor, track, and improve the safety of inpatient care. Can be used for comparative public reporting, trending, and pay-for-performance initiatives.