Chartbook on Patient Safety
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.
Download Information
- Chartbook on Patient Safety [PDF File, 1.68 MB].
- Chartbook on Patient Safety: Slide Presentation [PowerPoint File, 1.39 MB; Text Version].
Contents
Acknowledgments
Patient Safety
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
Changes for 2014
Key Findings of the 2014 QDR
Chartbooks Organized Around Priorities of the National Quality Strategy
Chartbook on Patient Safety
Patient Safety Measures
Patient Safety Measures That Improved Quickly or Showed Worsening Quality
Patient Safety Measures With Elimination or Widening of Disparities
Measures of Patient Safety
References
This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission. Citation of the source is appreciated. Suggested citation: 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report chartbook on patient safety. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 2015. AHRQ Pub. No. 15-0007-2-EF.
Page originally created April 2015
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