Adverse Events in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients.

Unlabelled: : media-1vid110.1542/5789657761001PEDS-VA_2017-3360 BACKGROUND: Patient safety concerns over the past 2 decades have prompted widespread efforts to reduce adverse events (AEs). It is unclear whether these efforts have resulted in reductions in hospital-wide AE rates.

Potentially Preventable 30-Day Hospital Readmissions at a Children's Hospital.

Background And Objectives: Hospital readmission rates are increasingly used to assess quality. Little is known, however, about potential preventability of readmissions among children. Our objective was to evaluate potential preventability of 30-day readmissions using medical record review and interviews.

Performance of the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) Tool.

Background And Objective: Efforts to advance patient safety have been hampered by the lack of high quality measures of adverse events (AEs). This study's objective was to develop and test the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) trigger tool, which measures hospital-wide rates of AEs and preventable AEs.

Methods: Through a literature review and expert panel process, we developed a draft trigger tool.

Measuring pediatric hospital readmission rates to drive quality improvement.

The Pediatric Quality Measures Program is developing readmission measures for pediatric use. We sought to describe the importance of readmissions in children and the challenges of developing readmission quality measures. We consider findings and perspectives from research studies and commentaries in the pediatric and adult literature, characterizing arguments for and against using readmission rates as measures of pediatric quality and discussing available evidence and current knowledge gaps.