Can Patient Safety Work Product be used for research?
• PSWP may be used for research only in very limited circumstances. From the Notice of Proposed Rule Making, Federal Register Vol 73 No 29 P 8148 2/12/2008: … § 3.206(b)(6) describes the disclosure of identifiable patient safety work product to entities carrying out research, evaluations, or demonstration projects that are funded, certified, or otherwise sanctioned by rule or other means by the Secretary. This disclosure is not for general research. Any research for which patient safety work product is disclosed under this exception must be sanctioned by the Secretary [of HHS]…. Research that is not sanctioned by the Secretary is insufficient to be a basis for the disclosure of patient safety work product under this exception. Further, although disclosure can be made for any research, evaluation, or demonstration project sanctioned by the Secretary, we expect that most research that may be subject to this disclosure permission will be related to the methodologies, analytic processe
