title: Event Reports Promoting Root Cause Analysis.
abstract: Improving health is the sole objective of medical care. Unfortunately, mishaps or patient safety events happen during the care. If the safety events were collected effectively, they would help identify patterns, underlying causes, and ultimately generate proactive and remedial solutions for prevention of recurrence. Based on the AHRQ Common Formats, we examine the quality of patient safety incident reports and describe the initial data requirement that can support and accelerate effective root cause analysis. The ultimate goal is to develop a knowledge base of patient safety events and their common solutions which can be readily available for sharing and learning.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Swananda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pandit
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gong
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States