Improving patient safety reporting with the common formats: common data representation for Patient Safety Organizations. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Improving patient safety reporting with the common formats: common data representation for Patient Safety Organizations. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published September 2016

Improving patient safety reporting with the common formats: common data representation for Patient Safety Organizations.

Elkin PL, Johnson HC, Callahan MR, Classen DC. J Biomed Inform. 2016;64:116-121.

Centralized reporting of adverse events data is seen as a cornerstone to learning and safety improvement. This commentary introduces the Patient Safety Organization program, including its work to collect data using the standardized common formats system and the future role of the program.

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