J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract 2022 Apr 8. Epub 2022 Apr 8.
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; Edward P. Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Boston, Mass; The Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Background: Allergy safety requires understanding the operational processes that expose patients to their known allergens, including how and when such processes fail.
Objective: To improve health care safety for patients with allergies, we developed and assessed an allergy safety event classification schema to describe failures resulting in allergy-related safety events.
Methods: Using keyword searches followed by expert manual review of 299,031 voluntarily-filed safety event reports at 2 large academic medical centers, we identified and classified allergy-related safety events from 5 years of safety reports. Read More