Key Methods for Measuring Patient Safety, Adverse Events

Patient Engagement September 21, 2023
By Sara Heath

Methods for measuring patient safety include chart review, automated surveillance, voluntary error reporting systems, claims data review, and patient reports.

Patient safety is a core component of a good patient experience, but without a tailored method for measuring patient safety, it’ll be nearly impossible to achieve.

After all, you can’t improve what you don’t measure.

Still, measuring patient safety isn’t a perfect science, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Many of the common strategies for measuring patient safety only provide a retrospective analysis, and ideally, an organization would be able to address issues before they even happen.

Moreover, there isn’t a great way to assess every patient safety indicator (PSI); for example, the industry still...

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