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What is a PSO (patient safety organization)?

What is a PSO? Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) collect and analyze data voluntarily reported by healthcare providers to help improve patient safety and healthcare quality. PSOs provide feedback to healthcare providers aimed at promoting learning and preventing future patient safety events.

How many adverse events have been studied by our PSO?

Since then, our PSO has studied nearly 4 million adverse events and near-misses from over 1,400 healthcare providers across acute, ambulatory, and aging care.

What is the purpose of the patient safety organization?

Bringing together the patient safety, risk, and quality expertise of ECRI and ISMP’s extensive experience in determining the system-based causes of medication errors and driving change under one Patient Safety Organization enables our members to better address all causes of incidents, near-misses, or unsafe conditions.

What resources do I need to know about PSOs?

Resources include the law and regulation, as well as guides and other helpful information. What is a PSO? Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) collect and analyze data voluntarily reported by healthcare providers to help improve patient safety and healthcare quality.

What is a PSO report?

PSOs create a legally secure environment (conferring privilege and confidentiality) where clinicians and health care organizations can voluntarily report, aggregate, and analyze data, with the goal of reducing the risks and hazards associated with patient care.

How does a PSO work?

PSO is a stochastic optimization technique based on the movement and intelligence of swarms. In PSO, the concept of social interaction is used for solving a problem. It uses a number of particles (agents) that constitute a swarm moving around in the search space, looking for the best solution.

How many PSO are there?

There are 96 PSOs in 35 States and the District of Columbia. This map shows the physical location of each PSO. All PSOs can operate nationally regardless of their home state.

What is PSO in pharmacy?

Outpatient Pharmacy (PSO)

Which of the following are the benefits of a PSO?

Benefits of working with a PSO include:Protections for patient safety and quality improvement information. ... All types of licensed or certified healthcare facilities and clinicians can benefit. ... Protections are nationwide and uniform. ... Increased event data volume. ... Customizable provider arrangements.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of PSO?

The disadvantages of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm are that it is easy to fall into local optimum in high-dimensional space and has a low convergence rate in the iterative process.

What is PSO security?

A Personal Security Officer (PSO) is an important job-role associated with maintaining safety and security of the principal(s). With growing threats and risks to personal safety and security, need for employing personal protection is growing in society.

Are PCSO police?

Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) work with police officers and share some, but not all of their powers. Special constables are volunteers who have the same powers as police.

What is a PSO at Homeland security?

Federal Protective Services Protective Security Officer (FPS PSO) Medical Standards | Homeland Security.

What are the PSI 90 indicators?

PSI 90 is a composite measure that is intended to reflect the safety climate of the hospital by providing a marker of patient safety (or “avoidance of harm”) during the delivery of health care.

Who created patient safety organizations?

Joe KianiThe organization was founded in 2012 by Joe Kiani and is based in Irvine, California. Over the last 7 years, PSMF has gathered 4,710 hospitals over 46 countries.

What is the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005?

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) establishes a voluntary reporting system designed to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues.

What is the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act?

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized the creation of PSOs and the development of Common Formats for uniform reporting of patient safety events. Go to the AHRQ PSO Web site.

What is the purpose of a PSO?

Purpose. Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) conduct activities to improve the safety and quality of patient care. PSOs create a legally secure environment (conferring privilege and confidentiality) where clinicians and health care organizations can voluntarily report, aggregate, and analyze data, with the goal of reducing ...

Who is responsible for the confidentiality protections of the Patient Safety Act?

Participating Agencies and Institutions. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights is responsible for the confidentiality protections of the Patient Safety Act. Select for information on how to file a patient safety confidentiality complaint.

When is the final report required for the Patient Safety Act?

The final report is required to be submitted to Congress no later than December 21, 2021.

What is the Patient Safety Act?

The Patient Safety Act requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in consultation with the Director of AHRQ, to prepare a draft report on effective strategies for reducing medical errors and increasing patient safety.

When was the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act passed?

On July 29, 2005, the President signed the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act, 42 U.S.C. sections 299b-21 to 299b-26) into law.

Listed PSO s Note

AHRQ updates the PSO information contained within the directories weekly, as needed; changes are made when there are newly listed PSOs and/or when existing information requires revision. Changes that would otherwise be effective on a weekend day or holiday will be effective on the next business day.

LISTED PSO s LOGO

The "Listed PSO" logo is available for use by PSOs that are currently listed by the HHS Secretary. Healthcare providers considering working with a PSO are advised to review this directory to ensure that the entity's PSO certifications have been accepted in accordance with Section 3.104 (a) of the Patient Safety Rule.

Why do hospitals not participate in PSO?

Nearly all of these hospitals cited redundancy relative to other patient safety efforts as a reason they do not participate.

How many people die from medical errors in hospitals?

Researchers have estimated that over 200,000 people die each year because of medical errors in hospitals. Learning from those and other, nonfatal events to improve patient safety is the goal of AHRQ's voluntary Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program.

Real-world solutions to complex patient safety problems

Patient harm is the 14th leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. In high-income countries, as many as one in 10 patients are harmed while receiving hospital care—and nearly half of these patient safety events are preventable.

Data-driven insights help in addressing safety, risk, and quality issues

ECRI and the ISMP PSO maintains one of the largest patient safety reporting and learning system—collecting and analyzing millions of patient safety events across 90 percent of the United States. Our mapping services automatically route adverse event information from PSO members to the PSO.

Engage safety experts for custom support

ECRI and the ISMP PSO also offers liaisons, most are former nurses and risk managers with decades of real world experience who can serve as safety coaches—providing tailored support as you adjust your patient safety program and work to quickly resolve pressing issues.

Dive deeper with a patient safety dashboard

While our big-picture analyses help identify broad trends and best practices, our advanced dashboard reporting empowers you to take a closer look at your organization’s own patient safety data by facility or system.

Keep driving patient safety improvement

Membership in ECRI and the ISMP PSO also gives you access to online toolkits—including self-assessment questionnaires and policy/procedure examples to help address medication safety, risk management, patient safety, and worker safety challenges.

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