Reliability and usability of a 7-minute chart review tool to identify pediatric prehospital adverse safety events.

Carl O Eriksson; Nicole Ovregaard; Matthew Hansen; Garth Meckler; Barbara Skarica; Jeanne-Marie Guise

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Reliability and usability of a 7-minute chart review tool to identify pediatric prehospital adverse safety events.

August 1, 2018

Eriksson CO, Ovregaard N, Hansen M, et al. Hosp Pediatr. 2018;8(8):494-498.

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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.

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