U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), The Patient Safety Task Force of the Department for Health and Human Services.
Chart abstraction using electronic data collection tool. Once medical records are selected from the sample, abstractors use explicit clinical criteria to examine the process of care, ascertain the occurrence of specific adverse events, determine that the event is an adverse event, and assess patient risk factors.
Cross-sectional. The MPSMS data sources are a national random sample of medical records for all Medicare hospital discharges stratified by State and Medicare administrative data.
MPSMS inpatient medical records: a randomly selected, nationwide subset of inpatient medical records from the Medicare Hospital Monitoring Program (HPMP) and Medicare Administrative Data.
The purpose of the system is to identify rates of adverse events in the Medicare population as expressed in medical records and administrative data. Adverse event categories include the following:
The system also collects and examines patient risk factor information, such as demographics, principal diagnosis and its severity, and comorbid conditions and treatments.
Medicare beneficiaries as required for the relevant measure.
Age, race, gender.
Since 2002.
Data is collected monthly and aggregated annually.
All States and Puerto Rico.
Agency homepage: http://www.cms.hhs.gov.
Data system homepage: http://www.cms.hhs.gov.
Hunt DR, Verzier N, Abend SL, Lyder C, Jaser LJ, Safer N, Davern P. Fundamentals of Medicare Patient Safety Surveillance: Intent, Relevance, and Transparency. Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. (Vol. 2), AHRQ Pub. No. 050021-2. February 2005. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/advances/.