Notice2024-17927
Common Formats for Patient Safety Data Collection
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Published
August 12, 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 (CFS-H) Version 1.0.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 155 (Monday, August 12, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65628-65629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-17927]
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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 (CFS-H) Version 1.0.
DATES: Ongoing public input.
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#2a5a59456a4b42585b04424259044d455c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5626253916373e2427783e3e2578313920">[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 to ensure that
health care quality and patient safety
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data collected by PSOs and other entities are comparable. The Common
Formats facilitate aggregation of comparable data at local, PSO,
regional and national levels.
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 solicits 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 solicits review
of the formats by its Common Formats Expert Panel. Subsequently, PSOPPC
will provide this input to AHRQ who then uses it to refine the Common
Formats.
At AHRQ, the Common Formats for Surveillance--Hospitals (CFS-H) are
applied in the Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS), a surveillance
system designed to detect and calculate patient safety event rates
through retrospective in-patient record review. QSRS uses the CFS-H
Event Descriptions to create standardized specifications to ensure
adverse events are reliability identified across all hospitals and
records. 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.
The Common Formats for Surveillance--Hospital Version 1.0 are
categorized into the following topic areas (modules):
<bullet> Birth--Maternal
<bullet> Birth--Neonatal
<bullet> Blood or Blood Product
<bullet> Device
<bullet> Fall
<bullet> Hospital-Acquired Infection (HAI)
<bullet> Medication
<bullet> Other
<bullet> Pressure Injury
<bullet> Surgery or Anesthesia
<bullet> Venous Thromboembolism
At this time, AHRQ is releasing the CFS-H Version 1.0 Event
Descriptions and supporting materials, including an overview and user
guide, tabular accounting, and technical release notes.
Comments can be provided on the Common Formats for Surveillance--
Hospital Version 1.0 using the commenting tool at: <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: August 7, 2024.
Marquita Cullom,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 2024-17927 Filed 8-9-24; 8:45 am]
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