Hospitals Did Not Capture Half Of Patient Harm Events, Limiting Information Needed To Make Care Safer

On July 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published this report, which found that hospitals did not capture half of consumer harm events, limiting information needed to make care safer. The object of the analysis that led to this report was to determine the extent to which hospitals captured patient harm events in their incident reporting or other surveillance systems, and what patient safety improvement actions they took in response to the events . . .