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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.

report [re-port´]

a prepared account of an event, investigation, or evaluation, usually for formal presentation to an authority or group.

accident report incident report.

case report a narrative in the professional literature that identifies a single incident and discusses pertinent factors related to the patient.

incident report a written document describing inadvertent trauma to a patient, errors or omissions in care, or untoward events happening to staff or visitors. Such a report should be filed as soon after the event as possible. Called also accident report.

shift report in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as exchanging essential patient care information with other nursing staff at change of shift.

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