Patient Safety Dashboard now available

Thanks to the knowledge gained from our work on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), we have developed a dashboard for all of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation’s participating facilities. This dashboard is displaying measures based on data already collected through the Claims Data Warehouse. Users can now track a variety of measures from their facility and compare performance to regional and national rates.

Measures users can track include:

  • foreign objects retained after surgery
  • air embolism
  • blood incompatibility
  • pressure ulcer stages III and IV
  • falls and trauma
  • vascular catheter infections
  • central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)
  • catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)
  • manifestations of poor glycemic control
  • surgical-site infection (SSI) following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
  • SSI – colectomy
  • venous thromboembolism (VTE) pulmonary embolism ( PE) all-cause
  • clostridium difficile (CDIF)
  • ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)
  • maternal deaths
  • intrapartum neonatal death
  • uterine rupture
  • unplanned maternal admission to intensive care unit
  • birth trauma inborns
  • return to operating room (OR), labor and delivery (L/D)
  • admit to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of neo birth weight >= 2500 grams and Gest >= 37 weeks
  • American Pediatric Gross Assessment Record  (APGAR) 5<7 inborns only
  • maternal blood transfusion
  • third or fourth degree perineal laceration