The Minnesota Department of Health has released two reports, the Adverse Health Events in Minnesota Report, January 2014, and the 10 Year Adverse Health Events Evaluation Report. 2013 which marks the 10-year anniversary of Minnesota’s Adverse Health Events reporting system that tracks 28 types of serious events, such as wrong-site surgeries, severe pressure ulcers, falls, or serious medication errors, which should rarely or never happen. Before the system was launched, there was no statewide system for assessing how frequently preventable errors such as these happened in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers.
Read full reports:
- Adverse Health Events in Minnesota, January 2014 (PDF: 2.3MB/108 pages)
- 10 Year Evaluation Report, January 2014 (PDF: 1.6MB/26 pages)