Title: Facilitating Cross National Comparisons of Indicators for Patient Safety at the Health System Level in the OECD Countries
Abstract: This publication was prepared to support the overall work of the OECD Health Care Quality Indicators
Project in developing a set of indicators that can be used to raise questions for investigation concerning the
quality of care across countries.
It provides a manual to facilitate cross national comparisons of indicators for patient safety through the
provision of detailed practical advice on calculating each indicator in a selected set of Patient Safety
Indicators (PSI) utilising national hospital administrative databases...