'Global trigger tool' shows that adverse events in hospitals may be ten times greater than previously measured.
By D. Classen, R. Resar, Frances A. Griffin, F. Federico, T. Frankel, N. Kimmel, J. Whittington, A. Frankel, A. Seger, B. James. Health Affairs, 2011
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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Medical Laboratory Technology, Pharmacy
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- The incidence of diagnostic error in medicine (2013, neutral): “45 A growing fraction of US healthcare organisations are using this instrument, but it was designed specifically to identify treatment errors, specifically errors of commission, and is poorly suited to detecting diagnostic errors, many of which are errors of omission.”
- Phenotyping for patient safety: algorithm development for electronic health record based automated adverse event and medical error detection in neonatal intensive care (2014, background): “Although several large-scale studies have focused on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) ’ s Global Trigger Tool, 4 5 a recent literature review found a lack of systematic studies that compare multiple methods for error and harm detection to each other and to a scientifically generated me”
- Predictive modeling of structured electronic health records for adverse drug event detection (2015, background): “Unfortunately, ADEs are still considered to be heavily under-reported [1].”
- Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care (2012, background): “Recently, commercial EHRs that allow broad use of real-time safety tracking systems have been expanded to detect global adverse events in hospitalized patients (Classen et al., 2011).”
- Natural Language Processing for EHR-Based Pharmacovigilance: A Structured Review (2017, background): “The coded diagnoses in EHRs have low sensitivity for ADEs [9, 10].”
- A New, Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care (2013, background): “In a somewhat similar study published in March 2011 in the journal Health Affairs, investigators examined the medical records of 795 patients treated in 1 of 3 tertiary hospitals in the month of October 2004.(18) These hospitals had been recognized for their efforts to improve patient safety.”