Allergy Safety Events in Health Care: Development and Application of a Classification Schema Based on Retrospective Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Allergy safety requires understanding the operational processes that expose patients to their known allergens, including how and when such processes fail.

Objective

To improve health care safety for patients with allergies, we developed and assessed an allergy safety event classification schema to describe failures resulting in allergy-related safety events.

Methods

Using keyword searches followed by expert manual review of 299,031 voluntarily-filed safety event reports at 2 large academic medical centers, we identified and classified allergy-related safety events from 5 years of safety reports. We used driver diagrams to elucidate root causes for commonly observed allergy safety events in health care settings.

Results

From 299,031 safety reports, 19

SUBMITTER: Phadke NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9371622 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature