Validity of selected AHRQ patient safety indicators based on VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the criterion validity of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) using clinical data from the Veterans Health Administration (VA) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP).

Data sources

Fifty five thousand seven hundred and fifty two matched hospitalizations from 2001 VA inpatient surgical discharge data and NSQIP chart-abstracted data.

Study design

We examined the sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive values (PPVs), and positive likelihood ratios of five surgical PSIs that corresponded to NSQIP adverse events. We created and tested alternative definitions of each PSI.

Data collection

FY01 inpatient discharge data were merged with 2001 NSQIP data abstracted from medic

SUBMITTER: Romano PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2669628 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature