The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new “trigger tool” for flagging adverse events in children.
In a study published in Pediatrics, AHRQ introduces the Global Assessment of Pediatric Patient Safety (GAPPS) trigger tool, which it says can use electronic data to identify adverse events in pediatric patients. Trigger tools are commonly used to identify adverse events after they occur by scanning a health record system and flagging entries that indicate that an adverse event may have occurred, the study notes.
Most existing trigger tools are not designed for pediatric patients, AHRQ says. An abstract of the report can be accessed by readers online at http://bit.ly/1PeWOI5.
