Levels of evidence at the AAOS meeting: can authors rate their own submissions, and do other raters agree?
When abstracts submitted to the AAOS Annual Meeting were rated, there was substantial inconsistency in the assignments of the level of evidence to a given study by different observers and there was some evidence that authors may not rate their own work the same as independent reviewers. This has important implications for the use of levels of evidence in scientific meetings.
Using an internal collaborative model and QI methodologies focused on medication use processes, harmful ADEs were reduced hospital-wide by 76.5%. The concurrent implementation of a high-reliability, safety-focused program was important as well.