Download or read book Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System written by Donna Farley and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results of a two-year study that analyzes how patient safety practices are being adopted by U.S. health care providers, examines hospital experiences with a patient safety culture survey, and assesses patient safety outcomes trends. In case studies of four U.S. communities, researchers collected information on the dynamics of local patient safety activities and on adoption of safe practices by hospitals.