Table 1.

Coding Harm

Level of Harm	Definition
None	No harm or no harm mentioned
Minimal	Minimal intervention or treatment required (eg, from a bruise or graze)
Minor	Minor intervention required to ameliorate harm (eg, from a sprain, anxiety)
Moderate	Significant intervention required to ameliorate harm (eg, from a grade 2‐3 pressure ulcer, health care–acquired infection)
Major	Patient experienced, or faces, long‐term incapacity (eg, from a dislocation, fracture, hemolytic transfusion, wrong medication side effect, post‐traumatic stress)
Catastrophic	Death or multiple/permanent injuries (eg, wrong‐site surgery, paralysis, permanent or chronic mental health problems)