Preventing critical failure. Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study

Abstract

Objectives To determine whether sharing of routinely collected health service performance data could have predicted a critical safety failure at an Australian maternity service. Design Observational quantitative descriptive study. Setting A public hospital maternity service in Victoria, Australia. Data sources A public health service; the Victorian state health quality and safety office - Safer Care Victoria; the Health Complaints Commission; Victorian Managed Insurance Authority; Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity; Paediatric Infant Perinatal Emergency Retrieval; Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Main outcome measures Numbers and rates f..