Assessment of Automating Safety Surveillance From Electronic Health Records: Analysis for the Quality and Safety Review System.

Background And Objectives: In an effort to improve and standardize the collection of adverse event data, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is developing and testing a patient safety surveillance system called the Quality and Safety Review System (QSRS). Its current abstraction from medical records is through manual human coders, taking an average of 75 minutes to complete the review and abstraction tasks for one patient record. With many healthcare systems across the country adopting electronic health record (EHR) technology, there is tremendous potential for more efficient abstraction by automatically populating QSRS.

Seasonal influenza vaccination at school: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Influenza vaccination coverage for U.S. school-aged children is below the 80% national goal.