Please join The Canadian Patient Safety Institute to provide your input on the Canadian Reporting and Learning System!
Critical incidents: the most serious subset of adverse events and they occur far too often in Canadian healthcare.
When a critical incident occurs in one jurisdiction, other provinces or territories are not made aware of the hazard, or the learning that results from analysis, because a pan-Canadian system with these characteristics does not currently exist.
The Proposed Solution: The Canadian Patient Safety Institute is proposing CAERLS to address this identified gap.
1. CAERLS would receive de-indentified reports of critical incidents from provinces and territories when they occur.
2. CAERLS would contain a surveillance structure is to identify emerging hazards and solutions globally.
These two streams of information would be analyzed and those hazards and solutions, which meet a predetermined criteria, would then be communicated to Canadian healthcare stakeholders.
CAERLS is focused on the reduction of harm to patients by providing valuable information on emerging risks and mitigation strategies to those responsible for delivering healthcare services in Canada.
CPSI has made several recommendations for a pan-Canadian system and, as part of their commitment to collaborate on this important initiative they are currently seeking input from stakeholders across the country to further inform the development of this proposed learning system through a series of consultation meetings.
CPSI hosting a consultation meeting in Winnipeg, MB on February 3rd, 2009 at the Delta Winnipeg from 1:00pm to 5:00pm with lunch starting at 12:00pm and would appreciate your participation.
Below is a link to the Consultation Paper - Building a Safer System: Canadian Adverse Event Reporting and Learning System (CAERLS) - and a summary document that will provide you with the necessary background information to participate in this event. CPSI needs your perspective regarding the unique opportunities and challenges for implementing such a system in Manitoba.
Please visit the website www.CAERLS.ca for more information and to register for this event. If you have any questions, please email CAERLS@cpsi-icsp.ca or contact Erin Pollock, Project Manager, at 780-498-7267.