Serious Reportable Events in Healthcare: A Consensus Report

Foreword by Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH

Item Number: NQFCR-01-02
Paperback, 44 pages
March 2002

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Abstract

The NQF has identified and endorsed a set of serious preventable adverse events in healthcare that can be used to standardize data collection and reporting of these events within and across states. Previously, standardized definitions and measures of avoidable, serious adverse events did not exist.

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