Identifying Possible Adverse Event During Chart Review Screening Criteria

Are you conducting a chart review on a patient admitted to the hospital?

Age of the patient

Gender of the patient

Has the patient been admitted to any hospital within the past year?

Number of months since the previous admission before the current admission

Duration of this admission

90th percentile for hospital stays with the patient's primary diagnosis

95th percentile for hospital stays with the patient's primary diagnosis

• readmitted to any hospital after being discharged for this admission?

• transferred to the intensive care unit from a general ward?

• transferred to another acute care hospital?

• returned to the operating room after a surgery?

• found to have left the hospital against medical advice?

• suffer a traumatic injury?

• have an adverse drug reaction?

• suffer unintended organ damage after an invasive procedure?

• have an acute MI, stroke, or pulmonary embolus during or after an invasive procedure?

• suffer a cardiac or respiratory arrest?

• have a complication following abortion or labor and delivery ?

• have an equipment failure?

• develop a nosocomial infection?

• have an adverse reaction to blood product transfusion?

• die?

• have any other undesirable outcome?

Did the patient fail or have an unfavorable result from medical management before or during the admission?

Is there any mention of litigation in the medical record?

Was a neurologic deficit present at discharge that was not present on admission?

Is the patient a newborn infant?

Apgar score at 5 minutes

Temperature on the day before discharge

Temperature on the day discharged