title: Development of an incident reporting system.
abstract: Incident reports document occurrences that are not consistent with routine hospital procedures or routine patient care; they are one measure of the quality of patient care. Waukesha (Wisconsin) Memorial Hospital has developed an incident reporting system that allows analysis of incidents by type and location of occurrence so trends can be identified. The hospital has also developed an "incident rate," which is useful for analyzing incident occurrences in relation to patient census.
mesh_terms: D004282:Documentation; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D011050:Policy Making; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D014922:Wisconsin