The hospital defines patient falls by five different types and reports their data of falls to the National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators to provide an external benchmark comparison. This provides a standard of excellence, which nursing care and patient safety measures can be measured and compared with other hospitals to see how they rank locally and nationally. The NDNQI enables action planning and intervention for specific units needing improvement with quality indicators and outcomes including adverse events like falls subject to the CMS nonpayment rule. The common findings in all three peer review articles are the importance of a patient safety culture, integration of ongoing assessment, communication and evaluation with the role
