A Review of Current State-Level Adverse Medical Event Reporting Practices Toward National Standards

by Beckett, Megan K.; Fossum, Donna; Moreno, Connie S.; Galegher, Jolene; Marken, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9780833039910
• ISBN10: 0833039911
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-15
• Publisher: Rand Corp

Summary

Summarizes the results of a survey of a 50-state survey of systems for reporting adverse medical events that took place in 2004. The report documents the consistency of information that states collect, identifies issues relating to establishing a national patient safety repository, and presents a plan for implementing a standardized national system.

Table of Contents

Assessment of the utility of existing medical standards for coding adverse medical events
Promulgating national patient safety standards
Recommendations for establishing a national repository of patient safety information
Introduction	p. 1
Data collection and analytic methods	p. 10
Administrative characteristics of adverse event reporting systems	p. 15
Defining reportable events	p. 30
Data elements : information about reportable events collected by states	p. 50
Existing medical standards applicable to adverse event reporting	p. 69
Design and implementation of an adverse medical events reporting system : the views of patient safety experts	p. 84
Summary and conclusions	p. 93
Creating analytic files or worksheets	p. 101
Summary of information collected about each state system (including Maryland)	p. 103
Hierarchical categorization of reportable adverse events	p. 107
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