About the Physician Practice Patient Safety Assessment (PPPSA)
The PPPSA is an interactive, self-assessment tool for evaluating:
- medication safety
- patient handoffs and transitions
- surgery and invasive procedures
- personnel qualifications and competency
- practice management and culture
- patient education and communication
When the Institute of Medicine published Crossing the Quality Chasm in 2001, health care providers learned the extent of preventable medical errors. Far more patients visit the outpatient setting every day, thus the need for patient safety becomes even more critical for medical practices.
Use this tool to:
- gain specific ideas to improve patient safety
- compare your data to aggregate results for similar practices
- enhance your team's awareness of patient safety issues
- heighten providers' awareness of characteristics that make a practice safer
- create a new reference point and baseline to enhance and support patient safety
- document your successes and track your progress
As a result, your practice can provide safer and better care, reduce liability and facilitate conversation among staff and physicians to identify opportunities to increase patient safety.
Thirty minutes after you purchase the report, you will receive an e-mail with instructions on completing the assessment. If you encounter any difficulties, please contact us at the phone number or email listed below.
Price
Purchase of 1-4 reports: $145 per report
Purchase of 5-14 reports: $124.70 per report
Purchase of 15-49 reports: $95.70 per report
Purchase of 50 or more reports: $65.25 per report
Customized Analysis Reports: $2,000 per report
To purchase the customized analysis report, please call toll-free 877.257.6462 ext. 1880 or e-mail patientsafety@mgma.com
Completing the Physician Practice Patient Safety Assessment online is necessary in order to receive a copy of the benchmarking report. This key benefit lets you compare your responses with others who have completed the assessment. After completing the assessment and entering your results online, you will be able to print a copy of the assessment with your scores for each item, domain and total score. You can then compare your scores with the aggregate results from other practices. If you have more than one practice site, a separate assessment should be completed for each.