Investigators led by John Rose, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA), looked at data for 43,385 EVAR procedures and 27,561 open repairs extracted from the Nationwide ...

Black patients are more likely to experience an adverse safety event than their White counterparts at the same hospital, according to new data from the Urban Institute. Researchers analyzed 11 patient ...

The transition to ICD-10-CM has been a pivotal development in healthcare coding, offering increased specificity and improved clinical data capture compared to its predecessor. This enhanced coding ...

3 quality, patient safety indicators for treating staph infections Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in hospitalized adults, but there are ...

Some hospitals may classify admissions in a way that exempts them from elective-based patient safety indicator scores, or PSIs, leading to less reliable patient safety data, according to a study ...

Several research teams have raised issues about the limitations of claims data to measure PSIs. Now changes are in the works. New data promises to add fuel to the ongoing discussion over the accuracy ...

We sought to determine whether concurrent (before discharge) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicator evaluation would result in a more expeditious review, accurate ...

New policies are needed to close hospital patient safety gap between Black and White patients, researchers say. Differences in the quality of hospitals that Black and White patients access are a ...

Objectives: We reviewed potential patient safety events identified with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) Software to characterize clinical events associated ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled back on plans to pause public reporting on certain hospital safety data in the wake of pushback from patient safety advocates. In Monday’s ...