Pokazatelji bolesnikove sigurnosti razvijeni su i definirani u okviru SimPaTiE projekta, te organizacija OECD (engl., Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) i European Community Health Indicator Monitoring (ECHIM), a neki od tih pokazatelja uključeni su u PATH (engl., Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement in Hospital) program SZO-a (http://www.pathqualityproject.eu/).