AHRQ chartbook on patient safety: national healthcare quality and disparities report (October 2019)

Summary

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions.

This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety.