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Preface

A set of 42 patient safety indicators (PSI) are established as part of the work done by work package 4 in the SimPatIE-project. This catalogue contains the descriptions of the PSIs. The work done to establish the PSIs is described in detail in the report: “Establishing a set of Patient Safety Indicators” (for access to Table of Content,
see here; for a pdf-file, see here).

Table of Content

Institution-Wide PSI

• Measuring Hospital Standardised Mortality Rates


• Death in Low-Mortality DRGs


• Patients Experiencing Adverse Events


• Patients Informed about an Adverse Event by the Staff


• Patient's Experiences of Adverse Event Management


• Transition of Care - Patient's Understanding of the Purpose of their Medication


• Institution-Wide use of Cultural Assessment


• Surveying the Development of the Patient Safety Culture


• Decubitus Ulcer