Prepared by:
University of California San Francisco-Stanford
Evidence-based Practice Center
Kathryn M. McDonald, M.M. (Stanford)
Principal Investigator
Patrick S. Romano, M.D., M.P.H. (UC-Davis)
Jeffrey Geppert, J.D. (Stanford)
Sheryl M. Davies, M.S. (Stanford)
Bradford W. Duncan, M.D. (Stanford)
Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D. (UCSF)
Investigators
Angela Hansen, B.A. (Stanford)
EPC Research Assistant
File Name Description Software Version File Size __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 01front.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 31KB 2 pages Contents: Title Page, Acknowledgments __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 02abstr.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 23KB 2 pages Contents: Structured Abstract: Objectives, Methods, Main results, Conclusions and future research __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 03conts.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 34KB 3 pages Contents: Table of Contents __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 04summ.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 145KB 10 pages Contents: Summary: Introduction, Reporting the Evidence, Methodology, Results, Table 1S. Strength of Evidence Literature for PSIs, Table 2S. Summary of Evidence for Accepted Hospital Level PSIs, Conclusions, Table 3S. Use of patient safety indicators __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 05body.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 2.1MB 154 pages Contents: Technical Review: Chapter 1. Introduction—Using Administrative Data, Patient Safety Indicators Evidence Project, Anticipated Uses of Evidence Report; Chapter 2. Methodology—Section 2A. Conceptual Framework and Definitions, Section 2B. Literature Review Methods, Section 2C. Development of Initial Candidate List of Indicators, Section 2D. Clinician Panel Review Methods, Section 2E. Empirical Methods; Chapter 3. Results—Section 3A. Literature Review Results, Section 3B. Indicator Selection, Section 3C. Overall Clinician Panel Review Results, Section 3D. Detailed Panel Results by Indicator, Section 3E. Comparative Empirical Results; Chapter 4. Conclusions—Potential Uses of PSIs, Relationship of This Project to Other Quality Initiatives, Limitations and Future Research; References __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 06appa.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 240KB 13 pages Contents: Appendix A. Inventory of Potential Patient Safety Indicators __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 07appb.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 99KB 12 pages Contents: Appendix B. Clinician Review Panels __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 08appc.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 132KB 9 pages Contents: Appendix C. Sample of Information Sent to Panelists __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 09appd.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 400KB 22 pages Contents: Appendix D. Empirical Methods Details __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 10appe.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 591KB 60 pages Contents: Appendix E. Details of Indicator Definitions __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11appf.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 366KB 30 pages Contents: Appendix F. Detailed Results for Rejected Indicators __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12appg.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 814KB 28 pages Contents: Appendix G. Detailed Empirical Results __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 13apph.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 69KB 6 pages Contents: Appendix H. Comparison of PSIs with CSP Indicators and Miller et al. PSIs __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14appi.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 119KB 12 pages Contents: Appendix I. Definitions of Indicators Presented to Panelists __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 15appj.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 43KB 4 pages Contents: Appendix J. Peer Reviewers __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16acro.doc Microsoft Word® Document MS Word® 2000 25KB 1 page Contents: Acronyms Used in This Report __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AHRQ Publication No. 02-0038
Current as of August 2002
Internet Citation:
Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data—The Patient Safety Indicators. File Inventory, Technical Review Number 5. AHRQ Publication No. 02-0038, August 2002. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/psindinv.htm
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