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serious reportable event

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serious reportable event
Patient care A health care event resulting in death, serious injury or other significant harm Types Surgical; product/
device-related; Pt protection; Pt care; environmental; criminal Examples Surgery on wrong body part, on wrong Pt, wrong procedure, retention of foreign object in Pt post surgery or other procedure. See Medical error.
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2002) Serious reportable events in health care: a consensus report.
Death highlights poor ulcer care: an elderly patient who died from an ... by Weststrate, Jan; Tweed, Carol; Naylor, Wayne / Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand
co-chair of the NQF National Voluntary Consensus Standards Maintenance Committee on Serious Reportable Events, says that it is not always possible to determine if an event was caused by error.
Never events use may discourage reporting by Health Management Technology
Promoting patient safety Aetna also has established new policies regarding Serious Reportable Events (SREs).
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