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Using Patient Safety Indicators as Benchmarks

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Ever since the Institute of Medicine’s report To Err is Human, patient safety has taken the forefront of quality healthcare delivery. One measure of patient safety is the rate of in-hospital preventable adverse events (PAE), or preventable injuries caused by medical care. PAEs have been linked to higher mortality rates and increased lengths of stay. Adverse events have been associated with most surgical procedures, and range from 2% incidence to almost 20% incidence by surgical procedure. Furthermore, it has been determined that over half of surgical adverse events are preventable.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Surgery, SCORE, Stanford Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94306, USA

    Tina Hernandez-Boussard PhD, MPH (Co-Director)

  2. Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Kathryn McDonald MM (Executive Director and Senior Scholar)

  3. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    John Morton MD, MPH, FACS (Associate Professor of Surgery, Section Chief)

  4. Surgery and Surgical Sub-Specialties, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    John Morton MD, MPH, FACS (Director of Quality)

  5. Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, H3680, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    John Morton MD, MPH, FACS (Director of Bariatric Surgery)

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  1. Tina Hernandez-Boussard PhD, MPH
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Correspondence to Tina Hernandez-Boussard PhD, MPH .

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Hernandez-Boussard, T., McDonald, K., Morton, J., Morton, J., Morton, J. (2012). Using Patient Safety Indicators as Benchmarks. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_38

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