Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Study Related to Adverse Events in Rehabilitation Hospitals

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Study Related to Adverse Events in Rehabilitation Hospitals

The OIG has published a series of reports regarding adverse events experienced by Medicare beneficiaries in different health care settings.  A list of adverse and temporary harm events in rehabilitation hospitals that were identified by the OIG as potentially preventable is now available at https://pso.ahrq.gov/common. The list can be used to raise awareness of a broad range of adverse and temporary harm events and to encourage reporting of such events for the purpose of learning and reducing patient harm.  The majority of these events could be captured using either version of the current Hospital Common Formats.

The OIG’s report, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. Adverse Events in Rehabilitation Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Report No. OEI-06-14-00110, July 2016 is available at: https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-14-00110.pdf.