What is Patient Safety Work Product (PSWP)?
• The definition of Patient Safety Work Product is very broad. The following is from the Final Rule: Patient safety work product: • Except as provided in paragraph 2 of this definition, patient safety work product means any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or oral statements (or copies of any of this material) • Which could improve patient safety, health care quality, or health care outcomes; and • Which are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a PSO and are reported to a PSO, which includes information that is documented as within a patient safety evaluation system for reporting to a PSO, and such documentation includes the date the information entered the patient safety evaluation system; or • Are developed by a PSO for the conduct of patient safety activities; or • Which identify or constitute the deliberations or analysis of, or identify the fact of reporting pursuant to, a patient safety evaluation system. • • P
