Common Formats for Surveillance–Hospital Now Available for Review and Comment

AHRQ has released Common Formats for Surveillance—Hospital, which includes modules entitled Generic Adverse Event Information, Blood or Blood Product, Delivery-Maternal, Delivery-Neonatal, Device or Medical/Surgical Supply Including Health Information Technology, Fall, Medications, Pressure Ulcer, Readmissions, Surgery or Anesthesia, Venous Thromboembolism and Other Outcomes of Interest. Until now, Common Formats have been designed to support only traditional event reporting. Common Formats for Surveillance—Hospital are designed to provide, through retrospective review of medical records, information that is complementary to that derived from event reporting systems. These formats will facilitate improved detection of events and calculation of adverse event rates in populations reviewed. Please go to the Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection Center Web site to viewCommon Formats for Surveillance—Hospital and post comments through the online submission tool. Comments must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 18.