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How to Use this Patient Safety Event Reporting Rate Calculator
This tool is designed to assist your team in assessing the strength of your reporting culture and provide recommend
improvement based on your voluntary event reporting rate. We recommend using monthly, quarterly, or annual volu

To use this tool, fill in all the blue cells on the next sheet titled 'Data Inputs'.

Then click the 'Results' tab to view your organization's patient safety event reporting rate assessment.

The Results tab is designed to be shared and can be easily printed in easily printed in landscape format.

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 Patient Safety Event Reporting Rate Calculator
Enter the following information regarding your organization:

1 Your Facility’s Number of Patient Days (most recent month, quarter, or year recommended):
Your Facility’s Number of Voluntarily Reported Patient Safety Events (for the same time period) including
2 incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions:

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2022
Patient Safety Event Reporting Rate Assessment
Hospital
Organization Name:
Date Range:

You must answer provide all information requested on the previous page in order to view the results.

Current Organizational State Recommendations

Total Hospital Event Reporting Rate per 1,000 Patient Days

Your Organization's % Above or

Care Setting Average Reporting Rate
Reporting Rate Below Average

Hospital 32.22

Note: The number of incidents, near misses, and usafe conditions for your organization are calculated based on the percentage

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting

Adverse Event Reporting Rate across all Pennsylvania Hospitals for Q1-Q2 2020 = 32.2 per 1,000 Patient Days
Adverse Event Reporting Rate across all Pennsylvania Hospitals for Q1-Q4 2019 = 32.22 per 1,000 Patient Days

Number of Submitted Event Repor

Category Description Score 2018
Unsafe Conditions A 26,906
B1 3,629
Near Misses
B2 35,606
No Harm w/o monitoring C 123,372
No Harm w/ monitoring D 86,742
Temporary Harm E 5,628
Incident Temporary Harm w/ Hospitalization F 2,123
Permanent Harm G 39
Near-Death H 86
Death I 281
Total Events 284,412
Unsafe Condition Reporting Rate per 1,000 Patient Days 2.94
Near Miss Reporting Rate per 1,000 Patient Days 4.28
Incident Reporting Rate per 1,000 Patient Days 23.81
Total Hospital Event Reporting Rate per 1,000 Patient Days 31.03

Unsafe Conditions
Near Misses
Incidents
Total Events
Notes
reflects a more normal operating environment, this calculator uses the 2019 data (32.22 per 1,000 Patient Days).
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32.2 per 1,000 Patient Days

32.22 per 1,000 Patient Days

Number of Submitted Event Reports % of Total Number of Reports

2019 2020 2018 2019 2020
26,930 27,567 9.46% 9.15% 9.90%
3,835 2,803 1.28% 1.30% 1.01%
39,208 34,100 12.52% 13.33% 12.24%
119,728 112,976 43.38% 40.70% 40.56%
95,879 92,734 30.50% 32.59% 33.29%
5,846 5,868 1.98% 1.99% 2.11%
2,329 2,083 0.75% 0.79% 0.75%
57 56 0.01% 0.02% 0.02%
116 115 0.03% 0.04% 0.04%
247 246 0.10% 0.08% 0.09%
294,175 278,548
2.95 3.19
4.71 4.27
24.56 24.75
32.22 32.20

10%+ Stretch 30%+ Stretch

Goal 20%+ Stretch Goal Goal
3.24 3.54 3.83
5.19 5.66 6.13
27.01 29.47 31.92
35.44 38.66 41.89
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per 1,000 Patient Days).
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2020 Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting: An Analysis of Serious Events and Incidents from the Nation’s Largest Event Reportin
 ation’s Largest Event Reporting Database
Nation’s Largest Event Reporting Database