Hospital COVID-19 Burden and Adverse Event Rates.

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced stresses on hospitals due to the surge in demand for care and to staffing shortages. The implications of these stresses for patient safety are not well understood.

Objective: To assess whether hospital COVID-19 burden was associated with the rate of in-hospital adverse effects (AEs).

Development and Usability Testing of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Common Formats to Capture Diagnostic Safety Events.

Objectives: A lack of consensus around definitions and reporting standards for diagnostic errors limits the extent to which healthcare organizations can aggregate, analyze, share, and learn from these events. In response to this problem, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) began the development of the Common Formats for Event Reporting for Diagnostic Safety Events (CFER-DS). We conducted a usability assessment of the draft CFER-DS to inform future revision and implementation.