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Improving Systems for Medical Error Reporting

One-day training sessions are already offered by the Maryland Patient Safety Center (http://mhcc.maryland.gov).

Beginning in 2007, Indiana will become the second state in the country to publish hospital-specific data on medical errors. The state will track 27 types of medical errors, including wrong-site and wrongpatient surgeries, adverse events from contaminated drugs, patient suicides and infant discharges to the wrong person.

Hospitals in Indiana have been required to report medical error data to the state since the beginning of 2006. A preliminary report on 2006 data will be posted on the state’s website in February; a final report is due in July.

Minnesota is the only other state to publicly release hospitalspecific medical error data.

In July, Maryland joined Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia in requiring hospitals to report nosocomial infections. Maryland will post its data on the website of the Maryland Health Care Commission.

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