Reportable hospital events

Modeling Reportable Events as Turning Points in Narrative

We present novel experiments in modeling the rise and fall of story characteristics within narrative, leading up to the Most Reportable Event (MRE), the compelling event that is the nucleus of the story. We construct a corpus of personal narratives from the bulletin board website Reddit, using the organization of Reddit content into topic-specific communities to automatically identify narrative...

Identification of serious and reportable events in home care: a Delphi survey to develop consensus.

OBJECTIVE To assess which client events should be considered reportable and preventable in home care (HC) settings in the opinion of HC safety experts. BACKGROUND Patient safety in acute care settings has been well documented; however, there are limited data about this issue in HC. While many organizations collect information about 'incidents', there are no standards for reporting and it is c...

In-Hospital Cardiac Events

In 78 consecutive patients with unstable angina, we performed coronary angiography randomized to either the first day of presentation or later during the hospital admission to assess the frequency of intracoronary thrombus and complex coronary morphology relative to the time of symptomatic presentation and the impact of these angiographic features on outcome. Early angiography (17±+6 hours) was...

What is a reportable error in surgery?

Hospital workload and adverse events.

CONTEXT Hospitals are under pressure to increase revenue and lower costs, and at the same time, they face dramatic variation in clinical demand. OBJECTIVE : We sought to determine the relationship between peak hospital workload and rates of adverse events (AEs). METHODS A random sample of 24,676 adult patients discharged from the medical/surgical services at 4 US hospitals (2 urban and 2 su...