Reliability and usability of a 7-minute chart review tool to identify pediatric prehospital adverse safety events.
Eriksson CO, Ovregaard N, Hansen M, et al. Reliability and usability of a 7-minute chart review tool to identify pediatric prehospital adverse safety events. Hosp Pediatr. 2018;8(8):494-498. doi:10.1542/hpeds.2017-0155.
Retrospective chart reviews are important tools for identifying potential adverse events and observing trends. This article describes the validation and streamlining of a chart review tool for pediatric prehospital care. The resulting Pediatric Prehospital Safety Event Detection System (PEDS) took an average of seven minutes to complete and had 87% agreement between expert arbiters.