Development of a Medication Safety and Quality Survey for Small Rural Hospitals

Conclusions: The survey can be used to conduct a short medication safety assessment specific to a limited number of areas and services in CAHs. It showed good ability to discriminate medication safety levels across participating sites and highlighted opportunities for improvement. It may need modification if case mix or services differ in other states or if the status quo of medication safety in CAHs or related standards advance. The described process of survey development might be helpful to support such modifications.
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - Category: Health Management Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research