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Qual Saf Health Care 2003;12:ii58
© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Institute for Healthcare Improvement

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Administrative data based patient safety research: a critical review

C Zhan1, M R Miller2

1 Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA
2 Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Correspondence to:
Dr C Zhan
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20852, USA; czhan{at}ahrq.gov Administrative data are readily available, inexpensive, computer readable, and cover large populations. Despite coding irregularities and limited clinical details, administrative data supplemented by tools such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) patient safety indicators (PSIs) could serve as a screen for potential patient safety problems that merit further investigation, offer valuable insights into adverse impacts and risks of medical errors and, to some extent, provide benchmarks for tracking progress in patient safety efforts at local, state, or national levels.

Keywords: patient safety research; patient safety indicators; error reporting




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