CMS has released a QAPI News Brief, Volume 2 which focuses on adverse events.  It includes a list of potentially preventable adverse events and a medication related adverse events case study.  It also shares useful resources and tools including a Nursing Home Adverse Drug Event Trigger Tool and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement SNF Trigger Tool for Measuring Adverse Events.

The last Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) brief was issued in 2013. The next QAPI brief is expected to be on care and infection related adverse events. Reducing Unintended Health Care Outcomes is one of the goals of the AHCA Quality Initiative. Visit the AHCA Quality Initiative site to learn more and to review available resources.