REPORTING
Chapter 395 F.S. currently requires reporting of the following types of incidents
to the Agency by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers at this time. They
must also report any injuries of which they are aware occurring through any
health care service, which would include nursing homes, home health organizations,
doctors' offices, dentists' offices, or any other purveyor of health care service.
Additionally, Chapter 641.55 requires similar reporting of patient injury incidents
by HMOs. The patient injury incidents are reported through two different types
of reporting mechanisms:
The facility Annual Report -- must reflect all adverse incidents according
to statutory definition, which occur in the facility in the course of a calendar
year, due in to the Agency, Division of Health Quality Assurance, after the
first of each year for the previous year; and
The Code 15 Report -- reports in detail and analyzes each serious patient
injury, as defined by statute, and due in to the Agency, Division of Health
Quality Assurance, within 15 days from the time of the occurrence of the injury.
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Updated May 5, 2008
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