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Patient Safety Event Reporting Systems Reviewed
AHRQ wishes to acknowledge the following health care organizations for contributing to AHRQ's inventory of patient safety event reporting systems. This inventory was used by the Agency as an evidence base, in conjunction with other input, for developing the Common Formats.
American Academy of Family Physicians
- American Academy of Family Physicians Patient Safety Reporting System
American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
- US Biovigilance Network
American Nurses Association\California (ANA\C) and the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL)
- Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes (CALNOC)
Ascension Health
- Ascension Health Reporting System (Safer System)
Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAA)
- Surgimetrix
Australian Patient Safety Foundation
- Advanced Incident Management System (AIMS)
California Department of Health Services
- California Reporting System (ACTS)
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Occurrence Reporting Program
Columbia University
- Medical Event Reporting System—Total Health (MERS-TH)
Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Adverse Event Reporting System
CRG Medical Patient Safety Quality Management Solutions
- Medical Error Management System (MEMS)
District of Columbia
- Adverse Event Reporting System in Washington DC
ECRI Institute
- Medical Device Problem Reporting
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, Division of Health Quality Assurance
- Medical Errors Resolution and Tracking System
Georgia Department of Human Resources, Office of Regulatory Service
- Georgia Patient Incident Reporting
Georgia Hospital Association
- Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA) Event Reporting
Illinois Department of Public Health
- Illinois Adverse Health Care Events Reporting
Indiana Department of Health
- Medical Error Reporting and Quality System (MERS)
Jackson Memorial Hospital, Florida
- Ryder Trauma Center Event Reporting Database
Johns Hopkins University
- Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
- Kansas Risk Management System
Maine Department of Health Services
- Sentinel Event Reporting System (SER System)
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Maryland Near-Miss and Adverse Event Reporting
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Mandatory Massachusetts Reporting System (MARS)
- Massachusetts Reporting of Incidents and Abuse
Minnesota Department of Health
- Adverse Health Care Event Reporting System/Patient Safety Registry
Nevada State Health Division, Bureau of Health Planning and Statistics
- Sentinel Event Registry
New Jersey Dept of Health and Senior Services
- New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Patient Safety Reporting Initiative
New Mexico Department of Health, Incident Management Bureau
- New Mexico Incident Management System
New York State Department of Health, Office of Health Systems Management
- New York Patient Occurrence Reporting and Tracking System (NYPORTS)
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Medical Error Quality Initiative (MEQI)
Oregon Department of Human Services
- Oregon Patient Safety Commission
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority
- Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System
Quantros
- Occurrence Report Management
Rhode Island Department of Health
- Incidents and Events Reporting
Sierra System
- Canadian Medication Incident Reporting and Prevention System (CMIRPS)
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
- South Carolina (South Carolina Accident/Incident Report)
South Dakota Department of Health
- South Dakota Reporting System
Tennessee Department of Health
- Unusual Incident Reporting System
Texas Department of Health Services
- Patient Safety Program and Medical Error Reporting
Texas Patient Safety Organization (TXPSO)
The Joint Commission
- Sentinel Event Self-Reporting
Trinity Health
- Potential Error/Event Reporting System (PEERS)
United Kingdom
- Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM)/Medicines Control Agency (MSA)—Yellow Card Scheme
- National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) of the National Health Service (NHS)—National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS)
United States Federal Government
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
- National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
- Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
- Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (MPSMS)
Department of Defense
- Patient Safety Reporting (PSR) System
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS)
- VA Patient Safety Information System
Food and Drug Administration
- Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER)
- Biological Product Deviation Reporting
- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)
- Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) MedWatch
- Center for Devices and Radiological Health
- Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database (MAUDE)
Indian Health Service
- WebCident
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Patient Safety Reporting System (PSRS)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- Medical Event Reporting System—Transfusion Medicine (MERS-TM)
National Institutes of Health
- Basal Adverse Event Reporting (BAER) System
- Clinical Research Information System Adverse Event (CRIS-AE)
- Genetic Modification Clinical Research Information System (GeMCRIS)
United States Pharmacopeia
- MEDMARX™
- Medication Errors Reporting Program (MERP)
University HealthSystem Consortium
- University HealthSystem Consortium Patient Safety Net
University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine
- Applied Strategies for Improving Patient Safety (ASIPS)
University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice
- University of Texas Close Call Reporting System
Utah Department of Public Health
- Utah Patient Safety Sentinel Event Reporting
Vermont Department of Health
- Patient Safety Surveillance and Improvement System
Vermont Oxford Network
- Neonatal Intensive Care Quality Collaborative Reporting System (NICQ)
Washington State Department of Health
- Adverse Event Reporting Program
Wyoming Department of Health
- Health Care Facility Safety Event Reporting
Current as of November 2011
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