III. LIABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY: UNCOVERING AND POLICING ADVERSE EVENTS 65 A. The Obligation to Disclose Adverse Events 67 1. Refining the parameters of adverse events 69 2. Mandatory adverse event reporting 72 3. Sharpening the adverse event definition 74 4. Improving mandatory reporting 75 5. Bans on confidentiality agreements for adverse event claims 76 B. Malpractice Insurance as a Tool for...

Hospital morbidity data were analysed to determine their usefulness for reporting adverse events. The entire ICD-10-AM classification system was reviewed in conjunction with the Australian Coding Standards to identify external cause codes and code prefixes associated with adverse events. For the 50,712 separations registered at The Alfred from July 2000-June 2001, 4,740 external cause codes wer...