The system should: |
• be based on an underlying information model consistent with those used in other high risk industries such as aviation, rail, oil rigs, and nuclear power |
• be supported by a comprehensive, universal patient safety classification |
• be able to elicit, classify, store, analyze and manage things that go wrong (incidents)* across the entire spectrum of health care from near misses† to adverse‡ or sentinel events§ |
• be able to accommodate information from all available sources |
• be populated by concepts shown to be needed from “real world” data |
• be expansible as needs for new concepts become evident |
• be able to collect information without being constrained by definitions about the type of event or circumstance¶ |
• be able to be used by funders, administrators, providers, carers, patients, and other clients or consumers |
• complement other members of the Family of International Classifications of the World Health Organization by incorporating subsets of concepts or cross-mapping directly where relevant |