Or. Rev. Stat. § 442.837 - Oregon Patient Safety Reporting Program

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission established Oregon Patient Safety Reporting Program.  Participation in the program is voluntary, and will be open to hospitals, long-term care facilities, pharmacies, ambulatory surgical centers, outpatient renal dialysis facilities, freestanding birthing centers and, independent professional health care societies or associations. The reporting program includes:

• Reporting by participants of serious adverse events and root cause analyses of serious adverse events;
• Analyzing information reported by participants to improve the quality of care with respect to patient safety
• Auditing participant reports to assess the level of reporting of serious adverse events and root cause analyses;
• Distributing written reports using aggregate, de-identified data from the program to describe statewide serious adverse event patterns and maintaining a website to facilitate public access to reports, as well as a list of names of participants.  The reports will include:
  • The types and frequencies of serious adverse events;
  • Yearly serious adverse event totals and trends;
  • Clusters of serious adverse events;
  • Demographics of patients involved in serious adverse events, including the frequency and types of serious adverse events associated with language barriers and ethnicity; and
  • Analyses of statewide patient safety data and comparisons of that data to national patient safety data

Reports or other information developed and disseminated by the program may not contain or reveal the name or other identifiable information of a particular provider or any individual identified in the report or information.  After a serious adverse event occurs, a participant provider must provide written notification in a timely manner to each patient served by the provider who is affected by the event.

Note:  Provisions implementing the reporting program for each type of provider can be found in Chapter 325 of the Oregon Administrative Code, as follows:

• Hospitals (Or. Admin. R. 325-010-0000 – 325-010-0060)
• Pharmacies (Or. Admin. R. 325-015-0001 – 325-015-0060)
• Long-term Care Facilities (Or. Admin. R. 325-020-0001 – 325-015-0055)
• Ambulatory Surgery Centers (Or. Admin. R. 325-025-0001 – 325-025-0060)
• Outpatient Renal Dialysis Facilities (Or. Admin. R. 325-030-0001 – 325-030-0060)