Notice2024-04767
Common Formats for Patient Safety Data Collection
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Published
March 6, 2024
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Health and Human Services DepartmentAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Abstract
As authorized by the Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates the development of common definitions and reporting formats (Common Formats or formats) for reporting on health care quality and patient safety. The purpose of this notice is to announce the availability of Common Formats for Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0 for public review and comment.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 6, 2024)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-04767]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Common Formats for Patient Safety Data Collection
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability--new common formats.
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SUMMARY: As authorized by the Secretary of HHS, AHRQ coordinates the
development of common definitions and reporting formats (Common Formats
or formats) for reporting on health care quality and patient safety.
The purpose of this notice is to announce the availability of Common
Formats for Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0 for public review and
comment.
DATES: End of initial comment period: April 5, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The Common Formats for Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0
can be accessed electronically at the following website: <a href="https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/surveillancecommonformats">https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/surveillancecommonformats</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Hamid Jalal, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD
20857; Telephone (toll free): (866) 403-3697; Telephone (local): (301)
427-1111; TTY (toll free): (866) 438-7231; TTY (local): (301) 427-1130;
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ed9d9e82ad8c859f9cc385859ec38a829b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2050534f60414852510e4848530e474f56">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background on Common Formats Development
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C.
299b-21 to 299b-26, (Patient Safety Act) and the related Patient Safety
and Quality Improvement Final Rule, 42 CFR part 3 (Patient Safety
Rule), published in the Federal Register on November 21, 2008, 73 FR
70731-70814, provide for the formation of Patient Safety Organizations
(PSOs), which collect and analyze confidential and privileged
information regarding the quality and safety of health care delivery
that meets the definition of PSWP. Aggregation of these data enables
PSOs and others to identify and address underlying causal factors of
patient safety and quality issues.
The Patient Safety Act provides for the development of standardized
reporting formats using common language and definitions (Common
Formats) to ensure that health care quality and patient safety data
collected by PSOs and other entities are comparable. The Common Formats
facilitate aggregation of comparable data at local, PSO, regional and
national levels. In addition, the formats are intended to enhance the
reporting of information that is standardized both clinically and
electronically.
AHRQ has developed Common Formats for Event Reporting for three
settings of care--acute care hospitals, nursing homes, and community
pharmacies--as well as for diagnostic safety events across all care
settings. AHRQ-listed PSOs are required to collect patient safety work
product in a standardized manner to the extent practical and
appropriate; this is a requirement the PSO can meet by collecting such
information using Common Formats. Additionally, providers and other
organizations not working with an AHRQ-listed PSO can use the Common
Formats in their work to improve quality and safety; however, they
cannot benefit from the Federal confidentiality and privilege
protections of the Patient Safety Act.
Since February 2005, AHRQ has convened the Federal Patient Safety
Work Group (PSWG) to assist AHRQ in developing and maintaining the
Common Formats. The PSWG includes major health agencies within HHS as
well as the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. The PSWG helps
assure the consistency of definitions/formats with those of relevant
government agencies. In addition, AHRQ solicit comments from the
private and public sectors regarding proposed versions of the Common
Formats through the Patient Safety Organization Privacy Protection
Center (PSOPPC). After receiving comments, the PSOPPC will solicit
review of the formats by its Common Formats Expert Panel. Subsequently,
PSOPPC will review this input and provide its feedback to AHRQ who then
uses it to refine the Common Formats.
For the Common Formats, it should be noted that AHRQ uses the term
``surveillance'' in this context to refer to the improved detection of
events and calculation of adverse event rates in populations reviewed
that will allow for collection of comparable performance data over time
and across populations of patients. These formats are designed to
provide, through retrospective review of medical records, information
that is complementary to that derived from event reporting systems.
AHRQ is specifically interested in receiving feedback in order to
guide the improvement of the formats. The draft Event Descriptions for
the Common Formats for Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0 are available
at: <a href="https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/surveillancecommonformats">https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/surveillancecommonformats</a>. Comments on the Common Formats for
Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0 can be submitted through: <a href="https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/openforcomment">https://www.psoppc.org/psoppc_web/publicpages/openforcomment</a>.
Additional information about the Common Formats can be obtained
through AHRQ's PSO website: <a href="https://pso.ahrq.gov/common-formats">https://pso.ahrq.gov/common-formats</a>.
Dated: March 1, 2024.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2024-04767 Filed 3-5-24; 8:45 am]
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