PSIS

The girl rubbed her hands together, causing the metal psis on her wrist to chime gently.

“I don’t know, the PSIs were a little low, so they checked them, and they just let me know they checked them,” he said.

It's time to say goodbye to PSIs.

While some of the PSIs have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, it's asking a lot of billing codes to serve as measures of clinical quality.

Indeed, the use of PSIs has elevated the importance of patient safety, but the literature continues to find important limitations with the metrics, and we should work hard to identify reasonable replacements and plan for their obsolescence.