Reliability and usability of a 7-minute chart review tool to identify pediatric prehospital adverse safety events.
Retrospective chart reviews are important tools for identifying potential adverse events and observing trends. This article describes the validation and streamlining of a chart review tool for pediatric prehospital care. The resulting Pediatric Prehospital Safety Event Detection System (PEDS) took an average of seven minutes to complete and had 87% agreement between expert arbiters.