Patient Safety Experts Advance Internal Hospital Safety Rating System

In a bid to clean up misleading institutional safety comparisons and go further to fix safety problems, Johns Hopkins experts are proposing standard guidelines to be used as hospital safety rating tools. “Hospitals are increasingly reporting patient safety data on their Web sites,” says Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. “While this is long overdue, the data is only helpful if it’s accurate. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Public Health on November 7th, 2007