Assessment of the national patient safety initiative : context and baseline evaluation report 1

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Assessment of the national patient safety initiative : context and baseline evaluation report 1

Title remainder

context and baseline evaluation report 1

Statement of responsibility

Donna O. Farley [and others]

Contributor

• Berry, Sandra H., 1949-
• Damberg, Cheryl
• Farley, Donna
• Fremont, Allen M
• Greenberg, Michael D
• Morton, Sally C
• Pollock, Nancy
• Ricci, Karen
• Sorbero, Melony
• Teleki, Stephanie S
• RAND Health
• United States, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Rand Corporation

Subject

• Government Programs
• Iatrogenic diseases -- Government policy -- United States
• Medical Errors -- prevention & control
• Medical errors -- Government policy -- United States
• Patients -- Safety measures -- United States
• Program Evaluation
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

In September 2002, RAND contracted with the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to serve as the evaluation center for its national patient safety initiative. The evaluation center is responsible for performing a longitudinal evaluation of AHRQ's patient safety activities and for providing regular feedback to support the continuing improvement of this initiative over a four-year project period. This report presents findings on the history leading to the AHRQ patient safety initiative, the start-up of the initiative, and early activities through September 2003. It focuses on assessing the context and goals that were the foundation for the initiative and documents the baseline status of the activities being undertaken. The evaluation found the agency has done an impressive job in starting the patient safety initiative, despite unreasonable high expectations and insufficient funding. The evaluators identify four priorities for AHRQ that they believe will have the strongest positive impact on the future of the patient safety initiative: designing interim objectives to pull the health care system toward the long-term goal of reducing errors by 50 percent; developing a national patient safety data repository; participating in active public-private partnerships and supporting health care organizations in their implementation activities; and balancing research and adoption activities

Related

• Assessment of the AHRQ patient safety initiative: moving from research to practice evaluation report II (2003-2004)
• Assessment of the AHRQ patient safety initiative :focus on implementation and dissemination evaluation report III (2004-2005)

Cataloging source

NUI

Dewey number

362.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

R729.8

LC item number

.A875 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography