(first released May 2002, last updated August 2011) Patient Safety Indicators reflect quality of care inside hospitals, as well as geographic areas, to focus on potentially avoidable complications and iatrogenic events.

It is an understatement to say that this crime was a potentially avoidable tragedy.

Hospitalization for asthma, a potentially avoidable outcome, is an important population-level marker of asthma severity.

Most doctors in the department felt that she had died from a potentially avoidable complication called aspiration, where blood or stomach contents are inadvertently allowed to enter the lungs.

Cholangitis and septicaemia are, in some cases, potentially avoidable complications of ERCP.

The report indicated that as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as a result of potentially avoidable medical errors.

Patient Safety Indicators also reflect quality of care inside hospitals, but focus on potentially avoidable complications and iatrogenic events.

Pediatric QIs both reflect quality of care inside hospitals and identify potentially avoidable hospitalizations among children.

Lock then elaborates, discussing recommendations he made to repair specific heart defects in neonates that ultimately led to worse clinical outcomes and potentially avoidable deaths.