Background: Few empirical studies have validated the relation between medicolegal risk
and hospital patient safety performance. We sought to determine whether there was a …

Background: Substantial expenditures on health care safety programs have been justified by
their goal of reducing health care associated–harm (adverse events), but adverse event …

Objective Traditional medicolegal data analysis focuses on physician care, without a full
acknowledgment of the effects of team, organizational, and system factors. We developed a …

Measures based on routinely collected data would be useful to examine the epidemiology of
patient safety. Extending previous work, we established the face and consensual validity of …

Despite consensus that preventing patient safety events is important, measurement of safety
events remains challenging. This is, in part, because they occur relatively infrequently and …

Objectives: There has been very limited research linking staff perceptions of hospital patient
safety culture with rates of adverse clinical events. This exploratory study examined …

INTRODUCTION: Increasing interest has focused on the safety of hospital care. The
AusPSIs are a set of indicators developed from Australian administrative data to reliably …

Background The association between measurements of the patient safety culture and the
“true” patient safety has been insufficiently documented, and the validity of the tools used for …

The literature on patient safety measures derived from routinely collected hospital data was
reviewed to inform indicator development. MEDLINE and Embase databases and Web sites …

Context The World Alliance for Patient Safety was formed to accelerate worldwide research
progress towards measurably improving patient safety. Although rates of adverse events …