The mental health trigger tool: development and testing of a specialized trigger tool for mental health settings.

Sreedharan Geetha Sajith; Daniel Fung; Hong Choon Chua

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The mental health trigger tool: development and testing of a specialized trigger tool for mental health settings.

July 10, 2019

Sajith SG, Fung D, Chua HC. J Patient Saf. 2021;17(4):e306-e312.

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Trigger tools allow for automated detection of patient harm from electronic health record data. Researchers developed and tested a 25-item trigger tool for mental health settings that identified virtually every adverse event that was found in confirmatory chart review. The authors suggest that this tool may advance safety efforts in inpatient mental health settings.

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