Medical Error Reporting Laws

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 …

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/patient-safety/statute-and-rule/index.html

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) establishes a voluntary reporting system designed to enhance the data available to assess and resolve patient safety and health care quality issues. To encourage the reporting and …

Error Reporting and Disclosure - Patient Safety and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2652/

This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (e.g., verbal, written, or other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - StatPearls

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK499956/

Reporting medical errors and requiring institutions to develop plans to correct errors is a national agenda. Two major frameworks for …

Disclosure of Errors | PSNet

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/disclosure-errors

The Best Response to Medical Errors? Transparency

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/best-response-medical-errors-transparency

Then, a milestone 2000 Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, called medical errors a major …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29763131/

Failure to report errors may subject clinicians to disciplinary action and increased risk for legal liability. Beneficence and nonmaleficence are ethical concepts that …

The National Medical Error Disclosure and …

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The National Medical Error Disclosure and Compensation (MEDiC) Act. October 12, 2005. Rodham-Clinton H; Obama B. 109th Congress. 1st Session. S. 1784. …

Working to Reduce Medication Errors | FDA

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-consumers-and-patients-drugs/working-reduce-medication-errors

A medication error is defined as "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control …

Medical Errors Reporting System - Health

https://www.in.gov/health/data-and-reports/medical-errors-reporting-system/

On January 11, 2005, Governor Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. issued Executive Order 05-10 requiring the Indiana State Department of Health to develop and implement a medical …

State-by-State Adverse Event Reporting Specifics

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Minnesota Must report 27 adverse hospital events that include surgical errors, drug misappropriation, medication errors and care management events Minnesota Statutes, …