How will we know patients are safer? An organization-wide approach to measuring and improving safety

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1988-1995

  Pronovost, Peter ^a,d   Holzmueller, Christine G ^a   Needham, Dale M ^a   Sexton, J Bryan ^a,d   Miller, Marlene ^b   Berenholtz, Sean ^a   Wu, Albert W ^a,d   Perl, Trish M ^a,d   Davis, Richard ^c   Baker, David ^c   Winner, Laura ^c   Morlock, Laura ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins Center for Innovations in Quality Patient Care   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Measures; Quality measurement; Quality of care; Safety

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MODEL; PATIENT SAFETY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 33745611771     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000226412.12612.B6     Document Type: Review

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