Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety.

Objective: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) software applies standardized algorithms to hospital administrative data to identify patient safety indicators (PSIs). The objective of this study was to assess the validity of PSI flags and report reasons for invalid flagging.Material and...

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Published in:Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 310 - 316
Main Authors: Hefner, Jennifer L., Huerta, Timothy R., McAlearney, Ann Scheck, Barash, Barbara, Latimer, Tina, Moffatt-Bruce, Susan D.
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Mar2017
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