Patient Safety Chartbook Highlights Strengths and Weaknesses in the Healthcare System
As part of AHRQ’s mission to make healthcare safer, the 2024 Chartbook on Patient Safety highlights what’s improving and what needs to improve in the delivery of patient care. The chartbook, which draws on data from AHRQ’s annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR), uses quality measures to analyze safety trends and disparities across healthcare settings. Its review of NHQDR priority areas describes quality measure trends between 2002 and 2022 in several areas, including:
- Patient-centeredness, in which 11 measures improved and six did not change.
- Healthy living, in which 26 measures improved, 25 did not change, and four worsened.
- Care coordination, in which 11 measures improved, 14 did not change, and three worsened.
Select to access the chartbook, which includes assessments of patient safety culture and the impacts of COVID-19, as well as links to tools to reduce hospital infections, advance perinatal safety, engage high-risk patients in safe care transitions and improve antibiotic use.
