title: [HEALTH INCIDENT MANAGEMENT MATERIAL].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The problems encountered with medical device increase patient morbidity, affect safety professionals and in crease health spending. The Material Resources Committee a the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona decided to understand the im plications associated with these products through a system o incident reporting from October2011 to June2013.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive retrospective study. No probabi listic statements consecutive occurrences sampling. Variable studied: type of material, type and time resolution and degre, of impact. For statistical analysis SPSS version 20 software wa used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  103 incident statements of 68 items, of which 83.8% were medical supplies and 16.2% for non-health were collected. The medical supplies impacted more frequently and severely in patients compared to non-health (p = 0.026). According to the family of the material, the incidents were related: 30.9%, to "infusión"; 17.6 %, to "cover material"; 13.2 %, to "cures" and 11.8 %, to "ventilation". Families of infusion and ventilation items got more serious problems in patients (p = 0.001). Incidences sanitary items were resolved in an average of 18.0 ± 28.0 days and non-health at an average of 8 4 ± 6.6 days (p = 0.03).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The medical equipment is the one with most incidents, severely impacting on patient safety. These incidents ar resolved over a long period of time that could be imoroved.
authors.forename: M Dolors
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Comas Munar
authors.forename: M Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Baños Ros
authors.forename: Fuensanta
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fernández Morales
authors.forename: María Luz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Méndez Prieto
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mota Cáceres
mesh_terms: D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017751:Safety Management