Data is best collected through electronic capture of data fields from electronic patient care reports. This requires having an Electronic Health Record System that includes the following PSMF Core Data Set for UE. 
Extubation may occur as a planned or unplanned event. A planned extubation occurs when a physician orders the removal of the endotracheal tube. An unplanned extubation is defined as removal of a patient’s endotracheal tube without a physician’s order. Unplanned extubation may occur either due to patient self extubation or accidental extubation by an external force.
This standardized core dataset should be incorporated (by legislative mandate if necessary) by all major Electronic Health Record companies to facilitate hospitals’ ability to track Unplanned Extubation:
Many hospitals’ Electronic Health Records currently do not have the PSMF Core Data Set for UE and any information on unplanned extubation is difficult to retrieve from narratives and notes. Any hospital whose EHR does include the PSMF Core Dataset should contact their EHR company and request adoption of the PSMF Core Dataset for UE.
Risk factors for unplanned extubation should be measured including patient sedation and patient restraint.
Rate of complications and mortality related to incidences of unplanned extubation are important to determine the extent of adverse effects of unplanned extubation:
 Mortality (will be calculated by the Patient Safety Movement Foundation):  The PSMF, when available, will use the mortality rates associated with Hospital Acquired Conditions targeted in the Partnership for Patient’s (PfP) grant funded Hospital Engagement Networks (HEN). The program targeted 10 hospital-acquired conditions to reduce medical harm and costs of care. “At the outset of the Partnership for Patients initiative, HHS agencies contributed their expertise to developing a measurement strategy by which to track national progress in patient safety—both in general and specifically related to the preventable HACs being addressed by the PfP. In conjunction with CMS’s overall leadership of the PfP, AHRQ has helped coordinate development and use of the national measurement strategy. The results using this national measurement strategy have been referred to as the “AHRQ National Scorecard,” which provides summary data on the national HAC rate \cite{28675924}. Adverse events related to unplanned extubation was not included in the AHRQ National Scorecard document. 53% of patients experiencing unplanned extubation do not require reintubation and those patients have a low mortality rate (3%). 47% of patients experiencing unplanned extubation require reintubation and those patients have a high mortality rate (37%). The overall mortality rate for all incidences of unplanned extubation is 18% (de Groot 2012)