INTRODUCTION Donna O. Farley; Cheryl L. Damberg; M. Susan Ridgely ...
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative,
07/2008
Book Chapter
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In early 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the report entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, calling for leadership from the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...Services (DHHS) in reducing medical errors, and recommending the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as the lead agency for patient safety research and practice improvement (IOM, 2000). In response to the IOM report, the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) identified more than 100 actions designed to create a national focus on reducing errors, strengthen the patient safety knowledge base, ensure accountability for safe health care
PROCESS Donna O. Farley; Cheryl L. Damberg; M. Susan Ridgely ...
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative,
07/2008
Book Chapter
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This chapter addresses two topics: the epidemiology of patient safety risks and hazards and the establishment of effective patient safety practices and tools. These system components are examined ...through our ongoing review of AHRQ’s complete set of patient safety projects as well as the new patient safety–related grants funded in FY 2006.
The primary approach of this evaluation has been to focus on the scope of work and contributions of the projects funded by AHRQ in these areas, and to develop information on where new knowledge might be expected to emerge for ultimate use by health care providers and
PRODUCT EVALUATION OF EFFECTS Donna O. Farley; Cheryl L. Damberg; M. Susan Ridgely ...
Assessment of the AHRQ Patient Safety Initiative,
07/2008
Book Chapter
Odprti dostop
A key component of this evaluation is the identification and tracking of measures in preparation for assessing the effects of the AHRQ patient safety initiative, while simultaneously informing the ...development and refinement of new measures and related data capabilities. Our overall approach has been to characterize baseline trends in selected patient safety outcomes for use in assessing improvements of those outcomes as subsequent data become available.
\Although AHRQ first funded patient safety projects in FY 2000 and FY 2001, we did not expect the results of these projects, and of other related activity by AHRQ and its collaborators, to have
