Common Formats for Surveillance - Hospital Version 1.0: Event Descriptions

https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/surveillancecommonformats Now Available: Common Formats for Surveillance - Hospital Version 1.0 The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has recently released Common Formats for Surveillance – Hospital Version 1.0. Common Formats for Surveillance are designed to be used in retrospective health record review to identify whether specified patient safety events occurred. These formats facilitate improved detection of events and calculation of adverse event rates in populations reviewed. The CFS – Hospital Version 1.0 includes: Description of adverse events (Event Descriptions) Technical Release Notes Event Descriptions Overview and Application Guide Tabular accounting of data collected for the application of event descriptions https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/openforcomment