More on Monitoring Unmonitored Patients

After reading a previous blog post, Susan Carr, editor for Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare magazine, asked me to write a feature article on monitoring unmonitored patients. The story will focus on increased patient monitoring to reduce adverse events.
I'm shooting for a feature length story, but I need your help. I've got plenty of references […]

Hospital Patient Safety Declines in Latest Study

According to this story in Modern Healthcare, HealthGrades has released their Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study (pdf press release), and the news is not all good:

But comparing the rates of reported PSIs [that's the AHRQs Patient Safety Indicators] for 2003 and 2005, figures supplied to Modern Healthcare
but not included in the study […]