Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Study Related to Adverse Events in Long-Term-Care Hospitals

Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Study Related to Adverse Events in Long-Term-Care Hospitals

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 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 long-term-care 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 OIG’s report, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. Adverse Events in Long-Term-Care Hospitals: National Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries. Report No. OEI-06-14-00530, November 2018 is available at: https://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-14-00530.pdf

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