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- Title
CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENT SAFETY INCIDENTS NOTIFIED IN A PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.
- Authors
Tainá Fabiola dos Santos Bica; Wegner, Wiliam; Luiza Maria Gerhardt; Caroline Maier Predebon; Eva Neri Rubim Pedro; Marcia Koja Breigeiron
- Abstract
Objective: to describe the profile of patient safety incidents reported in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Method: a cross-sectional quantitative study with secondary data, from the year 2014, provided by the Risk Management of a university public hospital in Southern Brazil. The data were classified according to the System of Notifications in Sanitary Surveillance and analyzed by descriptive statistics. Results: there were 115 reports, with an incidence of 0.72 per hospitalized patient. Most reported incidents are related to failures during health care (87%). Professional contributing factors (83.5%) were the main factors. The reported incidents occurred in the morning (49.5%) and presented damage to the patient (40.8%). Conclusion: risk factors, to which patients admitted to a PICU are exposed on a daily basis, can lead to the occurrence of patient safety incidents, with or without the presence of adverse events.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ACADEMIC medical centers; LEGAL compliance; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG side effects; HAND washing; INTENSIVE care units; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT safety; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONS; RISK management in business; QUANTITATIVE research; CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 10, p4206
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/reuol.10712-95194-3-SM.1110sup201726