BACKGROUND Adverse incidents (violence, self-harm and absconding) can cause significant harm to patients and staff, are difficult to predict, and are driving an increase in security measures and defensive practice. AIMS To explore the relationship between adverse incidents on acute psychiatric wards, admissions and nursing workforce variables. METHODS A retrospective analysis of officially ...

Clinical incidents are adverse events that can occur during the provision of health care services to patients. Over 57,000 incidents were voluntarily reported into Queensland Health's PRIME Clinical Incidents (CI) reporting system during 2007-08, the most common of which were falls and medication incidents. Although PRIME CI captures reported falls in hospitals, it cannot be used to determine t...

BACKGROUND The long-term impact of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) on morbidity and health care utilization among heroin addicts has been insufficiently studied. The objective of this study was to investigate whether health care utilization due to somatic disease decreased during OMT, and if so, whether the reduction included all kinds of diseases and whether a reduction was related to absti...

Introduction: Critical incident monitoring is important in quality improvement as it identifies potential risks to patients by analyzing adverse events or near-misses. Methods: This study analyses the reported incidents in a tertiary hospital over a 4-year period. Results: A total of 441 incidents were reported out of 98,502 anesthetics performed during the study period. Of these incidents, 67 ...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund „Critical incident reporting systems“ (CIRS) dienen dazu, dass Organisationen auf bislang unbekannte und sicherheitsrelevante Ereignisse aufmerksam gemacht werden Nutzer von den Zwischenfällen Einzelner erfahren lernen können. Fragestellung Ziel der vorliegenden Untersuchung war es, mithilfe CIRS-Meldungen aus Notfallversorgung im Rettungsdienst, Notaufnahme Schockra...