How effective are patient safety initiatives? A retrospective patient record review study of changes to patient safety over time.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether, compared with previous years, hospital care became safer in 2011/2012, expressing itself in a fall in preventable adverse event (AE) rates alongside patient safety initiatives.

Design

Retrospective patient record review at three points in time.

Setting

In three national AE studies, patient records of 2004, 2008 and 2011/2012 were reviewed in, respectively, 21 hospitals in 2004, 20 hospitals in 2008 and 20 hospitals in 2011/2012. In each hospital, 400, 200 and 200 patient records were sampled, respectively.

Participants

In total, 15 997 patient admissions were included in the study, 7926 patient admissions from 2004, 4023 from 2008 and 4048 from 2011/2012.

Interventions

The main patient safety initiatives in hospital care at

SUBMITTER: Baines R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4552927 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature