Hospital Safety Scores

Exploring relationships between hospital patient safety culture and Consumer Reports safety scores

BACKGROUND A number of private and public companies calculate and publish proprietary hospital patient safety scores based on publicly available quality measures initially reported by the U.S. federal government. This study examines whether patient safety culture perceptions of U.S. hospital staff in a large national survey are related to publicly reported patient safety ratings of hospitals. ...

Fire Safety Challenges in Hospital Safety Index (HSI)

Hospitals are a symbol of social welfare and the last refuge of patients, which is the most important issue of the health system. Patient safety is the first and most important issue for the health system.  Before COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined the Hospital Safety Index (HSI) to measure hospital preparedness for disasters. During the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals faced many ...

[Hospital safety in paediatrics].

Paediatrians are rendering care nowadays in environments that are increasingly complex and constantly changing. This results in multiple opportunities to cause unintended harm. In the last 15 years the world has been increasingly aware that care must be delivered in such a way as to ensure the maximum safety of the child. Since 1999, when the American Institute of Medicine published its report ...

Imperfect measure of hospital safety.

The Safety of Hospital Beds