The Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) requests your assistance sharing the attached communication, ODPANN 25-093 Update: Incident Management (IM) Rebalancing Initiative Phase 1 IM Guidance Updated. The purpose of this announcement is to provide updated guidance related to the Office of Developmental Programs’ (ODP) IM Rebalancing Initiative. Updates have been made to the Clarifying the Definition of Serious Injury section of this announcement. Updates appear in red text. The guidelines are organized into seven separate topics covering the following:

• Finalizing Incident Reports
• Reducing Duplicative and Multiple Incident Reports
• Clarifying the Definition of Serious Injury
• Clarifying the Definition for Discovery Date
• Managing Events Occurring Prior to Enrollment
• Discontinuing the Use of Optionally Reportable Events (OREs)
• Discontinuing the Use of Illness/Other and Illness/COVID Incident Categories.

Please review the announcement for additional information and detail.

Attachment 1: ODPANN 25-093 Update: Incident Management (IM) Rebalancing Initiative Phase 1 IM Guidance Updated