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incident report

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incident report,
a document, usually confidential (protected from discovery by a plaintiff in a lawsuit), describing any accident or deviation from policies or orders involving a patient, employee, visitor, or student on the premises of a health care facility.


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Incident report studies have identified more than 380,000 annual preventable ADEs in hospitals and 800,000 in long-term care facilities.
Don''t wait until the next day to file your incident report or at least list down what happened.
If something unusual occurs, record all pertinent information in your notes, then complete an incident report but don''t mention the incident report in your notes.
 
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