Are there any databases from previous studies concerning rates (gross or specific) of errors and accidents?
Dr. Meyer: Assessing rates for patient safety events is problematic. There has been great debate over how to specify the denominator for tracking rates. Unlike the traditional epidemiologic approach taken in most health services research, patient safety may be one area where we can learn a great deal from numerators alone. Question: How about failure to communicate test results? Dr. Meyer: We recognize that breakdowns in the communication of results is an important problem in patient safety. This was recognized in our document, Five Steps to Safer Health Care, which is available on our Web site. Question: Why did AHRQ dedicate so much of its patient safety budget to directed RFAs and relatively little to investigator-initiated (RO1) research for patient safety-related work? Dr. Meyer: Our approach was dictated by critical inputs into our patient safety research agenda. These included not only the patient safety research summit mentioned earlier, but also specific requirements in our co
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