A review of current state-level adverse medical event reporting practices toward national standards
Nearly half of states require or request the reporting of adverse medical events. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (Patient Safety: Achieving a New Standard of Care) called for the use of consistent standards for medical error reporting. Standardization will facilitate the creation of a national p...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Santa Monica, CA
RAND Corporation
2006, 2006
|
| Series: | Technical report
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155)
- Introduction
- Data collection and analytic methods
- Administrative characteristics of adverse event reporting systems
- Defining reportable events
- Data elements: information about reportable events collected by states
- Existing medical standards applicable to adverse event reporting
- Design and implementation of an adverse medical events reporting system: the views of patient safety experts
- Summary and conclusions
- Appendix A: Creating analytic files or worksheets
- Appendix B: Summary of information collected about each state system (including Maryland)
- Appendix C: Hierarchical categorization of reportable adverse events