SESAME stands for Standard Elements in Studies of Adverse Events and Medical Error.
- SESAME is a reporting guideline intended for use by patient safety researchers for studies focused on adverse events and medical error.
- Reporting guidelines are intended to improve transparency and completeness of reporting in research. This allows for reproducibility, informed comparisons and assimilation of knowledge.
- Use of reporting guidelines is increasingly required by medical journals and funders to ensure high quality methods.
- Multiple publications have observed that important data elements in studies of adverse events are frequently incompletely or unreported, that fidelity of the work to the stated approach is poor or not demonstrated and that different approaches or definitions for basic constructs cloud comprehension.
- SESAME is an attempt to enhance reporting, facilitate standardization and improve understanding.