Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

How automated ADE works:

• Computerized surveillance of patient data searching for evidence suggesting that an ADE has occurred
• Rules engine uses combinations of data to detect potential ADEs and fire signals
• Signals that fire are investigated by study clinicians to determine causality: whether they represent true ADEs, and if so, grade severity and nature of ADEs.
• Same rules engine for 3 hospitals