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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND Corporation,
2006.
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| Colección: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;
TR-383. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.