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Editors: Kenneth W. Kizer, Robyn Y. Nishimi, Elaine J. Power, et al.
Foreword by Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH
Item Number: NQFCR-13-06
Paperback, 72 pages
January 2006
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Although efforts to identify and report information related to patient safety have multiplied, the healthcare system still has no standardized framework for classifying the data that would enable comparisons and analyses of data from across the many public and private reporting systems. The taxonomy is intended serve as a single, standardized taxonomy for patient safety data reporting, classification, and analysis to which existing reporting systems can be mapped and that can be integrated into clinical software so as to form a basis for comparable information across reporting systems and patient safety efforts.