To examine the reliability of adverse incident-reporting systems we carried out a retrospective review of the mother and baby case notes from a series of 250 deliveries in each of two London obstetric units. Notes were screened for the presence of adverse incidents defined by lists of incidents to be reported in accordance with unit protocols. We assessed the percentage of adverse incidents rep...

In the 24 months to December 2005 recorded incidents of malicious damage to property increased by eight per cent in NSW. This bulletin provides information about the nature of malicious damage to property incidents through a detailed analysis of police database records and narratives of incidents occurring in 2005. These data reveal that the most frequent targets of malicious damage are private...

To improve emergency response efficiency under uncertainty, an urban emergency vehicle scheduling model is optimized by mathematical planning. The existing scheduling models are only built in accordance with current incidents while ignoring future incidents. To deal efficiently with future incidents, we adopt a different and novel approach in this paper by establishing a mathematical model whic...

Introduction: An estimated 3.8 billion passengers traveled on commercial aircraft in 2016, of whom close to 1.5 billion crossed international boundaries. Modern commercial aircrafts can carry up to 800 passengers and can fly more than 18 hours. Although not very common, in-flight medical incidents can result in flight diversions that are costly and extremely inconvenient. The a...

Introduction: Maintaining and improving organizational safety requires a strong safety culture. Following the occurrence of occupational incidents, proper registration, reporting, and investigation is a key requirement for safety culture to provide an appropriate learning culture. As a result, this study was carried out to assess the culture of occupational incident registration, reporting, and...

We used key words and letter sequences to identify airway-associated patient safety incidents submitted to the UK National Patient Safety Agency from critical care units in England and Wales. We identified 1085 such airway incidents submitted in the two years from October 2005 to September 2007. Three hundred and twelve incidents (28.8%) involved neonates or babies. Of the total 1085 incidents,...

Objectives 1. Discuss the ten categories of most frequently occurring critical anesthesia incidents as reported by Cooper. 2. Discuss the nine most commonly associated factors in criticial anesthesia Incidents as reported by Cooper. 3. Identify eight approaches to prevention or early detection of the most frequently occurring critical anesthesia Incidents as reported by Cooper. 4. List the esse...

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...