Validity of 16 AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to identify in-hospital complications: A medical record review across nine Swiss hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The validity of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) has been established in the US and Canada. However, these indicators are also used for hospital benchmarking and cross-country comparisons in other nations with different healthcare settings and coding systems as well as missing present on admission (POA) flags in the administrative data. This study sought to comprehensively assess and compare the validity of 16 PSIs in Switzerland, where they have not been previously applied.

Methods

We performed a medical record review using administrative and electronic medical record data from nine Swiss hospitals. Seven independent reviewers evaluated 1,245 cases at the various hospitals using retrospective data from the y

SUBMITTER: Havranek MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10656600 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature