Abstract
This study examines the associations between the availability of IT applications in a hospital and that hospital's risk adjusted incidence rate per 1,000 hospitalizations for Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) 15 Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs). The study population consists of a convenience sample of 66 community hospitals in Georgia that completed a Hospital IT survey by December 2003 and provided data to Georgia Hospital Discharge Data Set during 2004. AHRQ's PSI software was used to estimate risk adjusted incidence rates. Differences in means, Pearson correlation coefficients, and multivariate regression analysis were used to determine if the availability of IT applications were associated with better PSI outcomes. This study finds very little statistically significant correlation between the availability of IT applications and risk adjusted PSI incident rate per 1,000
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