SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantros, a leading provider of clinically-focused data management and decision support solutions for the healthcare industry, has introduced its new External Comparative™ module. Part of the Quantros Safety and Risk Management (SRM) suite of applications, the External Comparative module for SRM Safety Event Manager enables hospitals to compare their own patient safety event statistics against those of comparative cohorts. Cohorts are selected from a robust database of over 500 acute care facilities using the same event reporting taxonomy and are based on the American Hospital Association (AHA) database.