Root causes analysis of medical safety (adverse) events and counter measures research / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze characters and causes of medical safety (adverse) events and to propose corresponding countermeasures.Methods 322 medical safety events in some tertiary hospitals were analyzed by using the root causes analysis method.Results Identifying errors,medical defects,medicine mistakes were the top 3 events possessed 16.77％ (54/322),16.15％ (52/322),13.98％ (45/322);The top 3 departments were Neurology,General surgery,Oncology which possessed 9.63％ (31/322),7.45％ (24/322),7.14％ (23/322).Medical staff with a title of middle and highly were involved in possessed 33.23％ (107/322),25.78％ (83/322),and nursing staff was the top one possessed 56.83％ (183/322).Night working shift was the maximum occurrence time possessed 39.75％ (128/322).The top 3 medical acts which more easier to trigger medical adverse events were incomprehensive nursing care,irregular operation of diagnosis and treatment,clinical supervision defect which possessed 17.39％ (56/322),15.84％ (51/322),15.22％ (49/322).The slight consequence case was the top one possessed 47.20％ (152/322).Resolving the dispute by consultation between hospital and patient was the main way possessed 82.26％ (51/62).Conclusions More attentions should be paied to supervision of some certain department management and key sections,and improve the professional technical level,do preventive construction systems about medical safety (adverse) as well as emergency event handling construction mechanism by consummate supporting system and effective staff arrangement.