NPSD Chartbooks
The Network of Patient Safety Databases (NPSD) Chartbooks provide an overview of the patient safety data captured in the NPSD through the AHRQ Common Formats for Event Reporting (CFER) and highlight patterns and trends in the data. The Chartbooks represent the results of analyses designed to characterize the nature of patient safety events in hospital settings and represent initial attempts to collect this type of comprehensive data on a national scale. They examine data for topics that cut across the multiple modules in the AHRQ Common Formats for Event Reporting for Hospitals (CFER-H, versions 1.1 and 1.2), including generic safety concerns and adverse events involving blood or blood products, falls, devices and medical/surgical supply, medication and other substances, perinatal incidents, and pressure ulcers.
Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2022
Reflects data from the 2,558,126 reports submitted through December 31, 2021, including 481,300 reports submitted during the calendar year 2021. It also introduces a new Falls Supplement.
Download the 2022 NPSD Chartbook (PDF, 6 MB)
Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2021
Reflects data from the 2,077,008 reports submitted through December 31, 2020, including 318,773 reports submitted during the calendar year 2020.
Download the 2021 NPSD Chartbook (PDF, 4 MB)
Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2020
Reflects data from the 1,758,235 reports submitted through December 31, 2019, including data from an additional 619,111 reports not included in the prior NPSD Chartbook.
Download the 2020 NPSD Chartbook (PDF, 4 MB)
Network of Patient Safety Databases Chartbook, 2019
Reflects data from the 1,139,124 reports submitted from July 26, 2012 through March 31, 2018.
Download the 2019 NPSD Chartbook (PDF, 4 MB)
