This international consultation represented a milestone in the finalization of the European Union (EU) and WHO project on Minimal Information Model for Patient Safety (MIM PS) Incident Reporting and Learning.
Forty-five participants, including the countries participating in the project, international experts from Australia, Canada, India and Japan, national experts from Poland, the project research team and WHO staff, attended the meeting.
The compiled results of the research undertaken during the previous 15 months were presented and discussed, while comparing with the experience of other reporting and learning systems. Consensus was reached for MIM PS validation in its extended format, and it was considered extremely useful as a common denominator for the development of reporting systems where these have not yet been established, for their compilation at national level where applied randomly, and for collating data at the EU level from very developed systems, so that the learning component can be shared and enhanced.