Table 1

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Targets

No	Safety topic	Examples
1	Alert Fatigue	Failure to recognise ventilator alarm
2	Device-related complication	Device malfunction
3	Diagnostic errors	Delayed stroke diagnosis, test misinterpretation
4	Discontinuities, gaps and hand-off problems	Missed critical lab result
5	Drug shortages	Antibiotics shortage
6	Failure to rescue	Death from postpartum haemorrhage
7	Fatigue and sleep deprivation	Resident errors due to sleep deprivation
8	Identification errors	Wrong-patient procedures
9	Inpatient suicide	Death of hospitalised patient
10	Interruptions and distractions	Incorrect surgical counts due to distractions
11	Medical complications	Falls, pressure ulcers, nosocomial infections, thromboembolism
12	Medication safety	Dispensing errors, medication-related hypoglycaemic or renal failure
13	MRI safety	Harm related to unsafe MRI practice
14	Nonsurgical procedural complications	Bedside procedure complications
15	Overtreatment	Complications after inappropriate antibiotic use
16	Psychological and social complications	Privacy violations
17	Second victims	Clinician emotional harm after adverse event
18	Surgical complications	Unexpected return to surgery, surgical site infection
19	Transfusion complications	Transfusion of incompatible blood types