Objectives:

1. To present existing data on the incidence of adverse events in hospitalized children
2. To discuss current methods for measuring harm in hospitalized patients and the limitations of the various methods
3. To present for discussion the Canadian Pediatric Adverse Event Study.

Presenter: Dr. Anne Matlow,MD, FRCPC
Dr. Matlow is currently Medical Director of Patient Safety and Director of the Infection Prevention and Control at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, and a professor in the Departments of Paediatrics, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Matlow is involved in patient safety and infection control activities, locally, nationally and internationally. She is a lead member of the Canadian Association of Pediatric Health Centre's (CAPHC) Patient Safety Collaborative, where she chairs a group developing a trigger tool to assess the incidence of adverse events in hospitalized children. She has been active in the patient safety arm of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, and is co-founder and Chair of the Pediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Committee (PIPSQC). She is a member of the Ontario Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC), and Health Canada's Steering Committee on Infection Control Guidelines. She is passionate about paediatric patient safety. Her research interests are focused on the detection and disclosure of adverse events in paediatrics, and on the interface between infection control and patient safety.

This event is an accredited group learning activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.