By Greg Freeman
The Health and Human Services (HHS) National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety (NAA) has launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard, which aggregates hospital safety data from four primary measurement sources. The dashboard is intended to provide a comprehensive resource for understanding patient and workforce safety metrics.
With a goal of reducing patient and workforce harm by 50% from pandemic levels by 2026, NAA is a collective of federal agencies and private partners led by the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
“The National Healthcare Safety Dashboard makes national safety data more transparent, allowing for a comprehensive understanding of healthcare safety by care setting, beginning with hospital care,” HHS announced. “It opens doors to information and best practices to empower healthcare provider organizations, patient advocates, policymakers, professional associations and others to monitor national safety progress and make informed decisions to improve safety nationwide.”
Currently, the dashboard focuses on hospital safety data, but, in the future, it will include other healthcare settings, such as ambulatory clinics and nursing homes. The data sources include AHRQ’s Hospital Patient Safety Indicators from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, AHRQ’s Hospital Medicare Adverse Events from the Quality and Safety Review System, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Reporting Program Safety Measures, and AHRQ’s Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Hospital Survey.
The dashboard is available online at https://datatools.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/.
The Health and Human Services (HHS) National Action Alliance for Patient and Workforce Safety has launched the National Healthcare Safety Dashboard, which aggregates hospital safety data from four primary measurement sources.
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