What is a PSO in healthcare?
What is a PSO in healthcare? Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) conduct activities to improve the safety and quality of patient care. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized the creation of PSOs and the development of Common Formats for uniform reporting of patient safety events. What is the AHRQ harm scale? Phone: (312) 422-3980 | Fax: (312) 422-4580 | E-mail: [email protected]. • The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) created a Harm Scale that indicates the “extent to which the. patient's functional ability is expected to be impaired subsequent to the incident and...