%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation and Outcomes of Multidisciplinary-Reported Incidents Regarding Patient Safety Management at Special Functioning Hospital in Japan
%A Takanori Ayabe
%A Masaki Tomita
%A Manabu Okumura
%A Shigeko Shimizu
%A Eiko Uchida
%A Yukari Miura
%A Koichiro Itai
%A Kunihide Nakamura
%J Open Journal of Safety Science and Technology
%P 107-136
%@ 2162-6006
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojsst.2018.84007
%X <strong>Background:</strong><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> It is an important study to investigate incident reports submitted by multidisciplinaries</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">in</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">the Special Functioning Hospitals of</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Japan. We clarify the</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">characteristics of the incidents and evaluate the outcomes obtained from a polygonal analysis.</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Material and Methods:</span></b><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">We collected 1638 incident reports submitted by multidisciplinaries</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">for one year from April, 2016 to March, 2017.</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The incidents were retrospectively analyzed by</span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">profile, levels,&nbsp;distribution,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and ratios.</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Results:</span></b><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The majority of incidents</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">(94.7%, 1551/1638) </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">were&nbsp;distributed between the levels 0 to 3a, on the other hand, the incidents of a level</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">higher than 3b occupied 5.3%.</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">The reports from nurses were 75.3% (1234/1638)</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and those from doctors</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">were 12.8% (209/1638). The level 3b totalled</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">30.6% (64/209) of the doctor-reported incidents. In contrast, the level 2</span><span
%K Multidisciplinary
%K Doctor
%K Nurse
%K Incident
%K Report
%K University Hospital
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=89017