title: Designing surveillance for noninfectious outcomes of medical care.
abstract: We present basic information that a hospital epidemiologist needs when designing a surveillance system for noninfectious adverse outcomes of care. Specific topics reflect key characteristics of such a surveillance system: the purpose, rationale, priorities, definitions, data collection tools, data collection, analysis and reporting, and validation.
authors.affiliation: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Massanari
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wilkerson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Swartzendruber
mesh_terms: D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D015982:Bias; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States