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Selecting Indicators for Patient Safety at the Health Systems Level in OECD Countries

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John Millar
Soeren Mattke ()
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This report presents the consensus recommendations of an international expert panel on indicators for patient safety. Using a structured review process, the panel set out to select indicators to cover the five key areas: areas hospital-acquired infections, sentinel events, operative and postoperative complications, obstetrics, and other care related adverse events...
Ce rapport présente les recommandations consensuelles d’un groupe d’experts internationaux sur les indicateurs relatifs à la sécurité des patients. En suivant une méthodologie détaillée, le groupe d’experts a entrepris de sélectionner des indicateurs devant couvrir cinq grands domaines : infections nosocomiales, événements sentinelles, complications opératoires et post-opératoires, obstétrique, autres événements indésirables liés aux soins...

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Paper provided by OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs in its series OECD Health Technical Papers with number 18.

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