title: Implementing a template for major incident reporting: experiences from the first year.
abstract: Major incidents are resource-demanding situations that require urgent and effective medical management. The possibility to extract learning from them is therefore important. Comparative analysis of information based on uniform data collection from previous incidents may facilitate learning. The Major Incident Reporting Collaborators have developed a template for reporting of the medical pre-hospital response to major incidents. The template is accompanied by an open access webpage ( www.majorincidentreporting.org ) for online reporting and access to published reports. This commentary presents the experiences from the first year of implementing the template including a presentation of the five published reports.
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway. sabina.fattah@norskluftambulanse.no.|Anaesthesia and Critical Care Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. sabina.fattah@norskluftambulanse.no.
authors.forename: Sabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fattah
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway. marius.rehn@norskluftambulanse.no.|Field of Pre-hospital Critical Care, Network of Medical Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway. marius.rehn@norskluftambulanse.no.|London's Air Ambulance, The Helipad, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, UK. marius.rehn@norskluftambulanse.no.
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rehn
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesia and Critical Care Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. torben@wisborg.net.|Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hammerfest Hospital, Finnmark Health Trust, Hammerfest, Norway. torben@wisborg.net.|Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Trauma, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. torben@wisborg.net.
authors.forename: Torben
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wisborg
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration*