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Development and usability testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Common Formats to capture diagnostic safety events.

May 25, 2022

Bradford A, Shahid U, Schiff GD, et al. J Patient Saf. 2022;18(6):521-525.

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Common Formats for Event Reporting allow organizations to collect and share standardized adverse event data. This study conducted a usability assessment of AHRQ’s proposed Common Formats Event Reporting for Diagnostic Safety (CFER-DS). Feedback from eight patient safety experts was generally positive, although they also identified potential reporter burden, with each report taking 30-90 minutes to complete. CFER-DS Version 1.0 is now available.

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Common Formats for Event Reporting - Diagnostic Safety Version 1.0

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