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Minnesota report card on patient safety

Quick View. March 27, 2006.

The state is now on record for reporting hospital "never events."

In 2003, Minnesota became the first of four states to require that hospitals report all 27 "never events," medical errors or adverse events, as defined by the National Quality Forum and other patient-safety experts.

In January 2005, the Minnesota Dept. of Health issued its first public report of hospital-reported never events that occurred between July 2003 and Oct. 6, 2004, both in the aggregate and at the individual hospital level. This February, the department issued its second annual report, which covers the period Oct. 7, 2004, to Oct. 6, 2005.

Both reports are available on the Minnesota Dept. of Health's Web site (www.health.state.mn.us/patientsafety).

This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:

"Adverse Health Events in Minnesota," 2005 and 2006 reports, Minnesota Dept. of Health.

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