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Critical review, development, and testing of a taxonomy for adverse events and near misses in the emergency department.
Researchers created and tested a taxonomy for adverse events (AEs) and near misses for use in the emergency department (ED). This taxonomy is patient-centered, as opposed to most taxonomies which fail to describe harm experienced by patients and focus instead on errors and uses too broad categorizations. The authors reviewed candidate taxonomies using an iterative process and selected the Adventist Health Systems AE taxonomy and modified it for use in the ED. After testing with reviewers, agreement with the criterion standard was 92% at the category level and 88% at the subcategory level. Performance from individual raters ranged from very good (88%) to near perfect (98%) at the main category level.
AHRQ-funded; HS025052.
Citation: Griffey RT, Schneider RM, Todorov AA .
Critical review, development, and testing of a taxonomy for adverse events and near misses in the emergency department.
Acad Emerg Med 2019 Jun;26(6):670-79. doi: 10.1111/acem.13724..
Keywords: Adverse Events, Emergency Department, Medical Errors, Patient Safety, Risk