From the ∗Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
†Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
‡Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
§Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
∥American College of Physicians, Washington, District of Columbia
¶Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York
∗∗Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland.
Correspondence: Elizabeth R. Pfoh, MPH, PhD, 2024 E. Monument St, Suite 2-516 F, Baltimore, MD (e-mail: [email protected]).
The authors disclose no conflict of interest.
Definitions of types of patient safety events: incidents—patient safety events that reached the patient, whether there was harm; near misses or close calls—patient safety events that did not reach the patient; and unsafe conditions—circumstances that increase the probability of a patient safety event.
Funding: This work was supported by a grant from The Doctors Company Foundation to the American College of Physicians. Dr Singh is supported by the Veteran Administration Health Services Research and Development Service (CRE 12–033; Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers USA 14–274), the Veteran Administration National Center for Patient Safety, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (R01HS022087) and in part by the Houston Veteran Administration HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (CIN 13–413). Dr Pfoh is supported by a training grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (T32HP10025B0).
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