Facilitating Cross National Comparisons of Indicators for Patient Safety at the Health System Level in the OECD Countries

This publication was prepared to support the overall work of the OECD Health Care Quality IndicatorsProject in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning thequality of care across countries.It provides a manual to facilitate cross national comparisons of indicators for patient safety through theprovision of detailed practical advice on calculating each indicator in a selected set of Patient SafetyIndicators (PSI) utilising national hospital administrative databases...