Assessing patient safety in the United States: challenges and opportunities

C Zhan, E Kelley, HP Yang, M Keyes, J Battles… - Medical …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Background: In 1999, the US Congress mandated the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), to report annually to
the nation about healthcare quality. One chapter in the National Healthcare Quality Report
(NHQR) is focused on patient safety. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to
describe the challenges in reporting the national status on patient safety for the first NHQR
and discuss emerging opportunities to improve the comprehensiveness and reliability of …
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