Patient Safety and Quality Metrics in Pediatric Hospital Medicine.

Quality-based regulations, performance-based payouts, and open reporting have contributed to a growing focus on quality and safety metrics in health care. Medical errors are a well-known catastrophe in the field. Especially disturbing are estimates of pediatric safety issues, which hold a stronger capacity to cause serious issues than those found in adults. This article presents information collected in the past 2 decades pertaining to the issue of quality, and describes a preliminary list of potential solutions and methods of implementation. The beginning stages of a reconstructive journey of safety and quality in a Michigan pediatric hospital is introduced and discussed. Published by Elsevier Inc.