Maximizing the Use of State Adverse Event Data to Improve Patient Safety

This Fund-supported report by Jill Rosenthal and Maureen Booth, now available on the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) Web site, contains key findings from a NASHP summit convened to identify mechanisms and tools to improve data integrity, event report analysis, and data feedback and dissemination. The report discusses the challenges and opportunities that states are likely to encounter as they improve their adverse-event reporting systems.