Patient Safety Indicators
The PSIs are a set of measures that can be used to screen for adverse events and complications that patients may experience as a result of exposure to the health care system. The PSIs provide a focus for further analysis to reduce potentially preventable errors through system or process changes
AHRQ PSIs Used for the MHA Hospital Performance Project
- complications of anesthesia (PSI 1)
- death in low mortality DRGs (PSI 2)
- decubitus ulcer (PSI 3)
- failure to rescue (PSI 4)
- foreign body left in during procedure (PSI 5)
- iatrogenic pneumothorax (PSI 6)
- infection due to medical care (PSI 7)
- postoperative hip fracture (PSI 8)
- postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma (PSI 9)
- postoperative physiologic metabolic derangement (PSI 10)
- postoperative respiratory failure (PSI 11)
- postoperative pulmonary embolism (PE) or deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (PSI 12)
- postoperative sepsis (PSI 13)
- postoperative wound dehiscence (PSI 14)
- accidental puncture/laceration (PSI 15)
- transfusion reaction (PSI 16)
- birth trauma (PSI 17)
- OB trauma – vaginal with instrument (PSI 18)
- OB trauma – vaginal without instrument (PSI 19)
- OB trauma – Cesarean (PSI 20)