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Evidence boundary. This page is a structured project extraction from the linked primary Prevention of Future Deaths source. It is not the report text. Do not infer cause, prevalence or product-wide performance beyond the source and the explicit qualification below.

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Report metadata

Field Value
PFD reference 2022-0090
Registered primary source SRC-054
Report date 2022-03-20
Coroner area Wales
Clinical setting Hospital discharge
Care transition Inpatient to discharge prescribing
Primary workflow group Medication and prescribing
Primary browsing context Acute and emergency care
Predominant information boundary Within a care setting

The workflow, browsing-context and predominant-boundary fields are retained navigation aids. They are not additional coronial findings, and a single primary value cannot express every aspect of a multi-setting or multi-mechanism report.

Care-pathway classification

This classification distinguishes where safety-relevant information or work arose, where action was expected and where the digital or information workflow failed. It is a project coding of the source, not a coronial statement. “Origin” does not mean the organisation caused the harm.

Dimension Project classification
Settings and pathway participants Secondary acute or outpatient care
Information or work-item origin Secondary acute or outpatient care
Origin care context(s) Secondary care
Expected action destination Secondary acute or outpatient care
Destination care context(s) Secondary care
Directional pathway Secondary acute or outpatient care → Secondary acute or outpatient care
Care-setting span One care setting
Sector boundary Health services only
Failure point Receiving or action service
Classification confidence high

Classification note: Known-allergy data and discharge prescribing were within the same hospital; the control failed when the prescriber could bypass allergy review.

Classification confidence applies only to this care-pathway coding. It is separate from extraction confidence, source authority and causal certainty.

Evidence status and qualification

Field Status
Extraction confidence high
Verification status Primary source linked; high-confidence extraction
Response evidence status Not assessed in this dataset
Registered response sources None registered for this row
Non-exclusive mechanism codes ALERT, VIS, HF, GOV

Qualification recorded in the dataset: Direct fatal adverse-reaction case

“Response evidence noted” means only that the row qualification refers to response/respondent evidence or records a recipient's post-report position. The linked IDs enumerate the official response attachments registered for this row; they do not imply that every response supports every part of the qualification, and they do not establish implementation. “Not assessed” makes no claim about whether a response exists.

Structured project extraction

These fields are analytical summaries, not quotations.

Project summary of the coroner's concern

Electronic process permitted unsafe avoidance of allergy review

Requested action

Health Board to act

Digital safety characterisation

Dimension Project extraction
System or record type All-Wales electronic discharge system
Digital function Allergy decision support
Failure mode System permitted prescribers to bypass the known-allergy section and constituent-drug allergy was missed
Human-factors issue Critical allergy context could be skipped
Workflow issue Discharge prescribing lacked mandatory safety verification
Information issue Known allergy not applied to decision

Downstream Defence trace

No canonical candidate Defence requirement currently cites this report. This does not imply that the mechanism is irrelevant; any mapping must be added and qualified in the controlled requirements register.

The included-case dataset preserves early legacy_military_relevance and legacy_derived_requirement fields for audit history. They are not published here as requirements and must not override the canonical REQ register. New report rows do not need to populate them.