Development of the incident reporting system using the nursing administrative database.

ABSTRACT

A role of incident reporting system has become more important for improving of the patient safety. However, the more various causes managers seek for, the longer time healthcare providers send to report near-miss/ medical errors. The purpose of our work was to try to develop "the incident reporting system" utilized the nursing administrative database. As a result, we found that the system would make us spend less time to report medical errors and easy to analyze of the nursing care structure. The system using the nursing administrative database is effective to improve the patient safety rationally.