Sec. 754. PATIENT CARE REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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## SEC. 754 PATIENT CARE REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM **[**[10 U.S.C. 1071 note](/us/usc/t10/s1071)**]** ###
(a)Establishment The Secretary of Defense shall establish a patient care error reporting and management system. ###
(b)Purposes of System The purposes of the system are as follows: ####
(1)To study the occurrences of errors in the patient care provided under chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code. ####
(2)To identify the systemic factors that are associated with such occurrences. ####
(3)To provide for action to be taken to correct the identified systemic factors. ###
(c)Requirements for System The patient care error reporting and management system shall include the following: ####
(1)A hospital-level patient safety center, within the quality assurance department of each health care organization of the Department of Defense, to collect, assess, and report on the nature and frequency of errors related to patient care. ####
(2)For each health care organization of the Department of Defense and for the entire Defense health program, patient safety standards that are necessary for the development of a full understanding of patient safety issues in each such organization and the entire program, including the nature and types of errors and the systemic causes of the errors. ####
(3)Establishment of a Department of Defense Patient Safety Center, which shall have the following missions: #####
(A)To analyze information on patient care errors that is submitted to the Center by each military health care organization. #####
(B)To develop action plans for addressing patterns of patient care errors. #####
(C)To execute those action plans to mitigate and control errors in patient care with a goal of ensuring that the health care organizations of the Department of Defense provide highly reliable patient care with virtually no error. #####
(D)To provide, through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Department of Health and Human Services any reports that the Assistant Secretary determines appropriate. #####
(E)To review and integrate processes for reducing errors associated with patient care and for enhancing patient safety. #####
(F)To contract with a qualified and objective external organization to manage the national patient safety database of the Department of Defense. ###
(d)Medical Team Training Program The Secretary shall expand the health care team coordination program to integrate that program into all Department of Defense health care operations. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall take the following actions: ####
(1)Establish not less than two Centers of Excellence for the development, validation, proliferation, and sustainment of the health care team coordination program, one of which shall support all fixed military health care organizations, the other of which shall support all combat casualty care organizations. ####
(2)Deploy the program to all fixed and combat casualty care organizations of each of the Armed Forces, at the rate of not less than 10 organizations in each fiscal year. ####
(3)Expand the scope of the health care team coordination program from a focus on emergency department care to a coverage that includes care in all major medical specialties, at the rate of not less than one specialty in each fiscal year. ####
(4)Continue research and development investments to improve communication, coordination, and team work in the provision of health care. ###
(e)Consultation The Secretary shall consult with the other administering Secretaries (as defined in section 1072(3) of title 10, United States Code) in carrying out this section. * * * * * * *
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PATIENT CARE REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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