Developing Pediatric Patient Safety Research Priorities

Global priorities for patient safety research.

Setting economic priorities for patient safety programs and patient safety research using case mix costing data

Methods Patient level costs are estimated using computerized patient costing systems that initially log individual utilization of inpatient services, and then apply sophisticated cost estimates from the hospital's general ledger. The occurrence of a hospital-acquired diagnosis is identified using a new Australian 'condition-onset' flag for all diagnoses not present on admission. These diagnoses...

Priorities for pediatric prehospital research.

UNLABELLED Up to 3 million US children are cared for by emergency medical services (EMSs) annually. Limited research exists on pediatric prehospital care. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) mission is to perform high-quality research for children, including prehospital research. Our objective was to develop a pediatric-specific prehospital research agenda. METHODS ...

Setting priorities for patient safety.

BACKGROUND Current "flags" for adverse events (AEs) are biased towards those with serious outcomes, potentially leading to failure to address mundane common problems. AIM To provide a basis for setting priorities to improve patient safety by ranking adverse events by resource consumption as well as by outcome. This was done by classifying a set of AEs, according to how they may be prevented, ...

Interruptions and pediatric patient safety.

This study explored interruptions in pediatric nurses' work and the systems issues related to interruptions in nursing work environments. A total of 5,325 interruptions were observed in this study, providing information on sources, types, and causes of interruptions. The nursing work being performed when interrupted and the outcomes of these interruptions are described.