Incidence of major incidents nowadays is in constant growth, especially in last decade. Main goal of all health systems is to minimize and prevent tragic outcomes of major incidents, thus reducing morbidity and mortality and psychological and physical suffering. Lessons learned from Major Incidents throughout the World point out that tragical outcomes could be avoided through adequate preparati...

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INTRODUCTION Recently, mass-casualty incident (MCI) preparedness and training has received increasing attention at the hospital level. OBJECTIVES To review the existing evidence on the effectiveness of disaster drills, technology-based interventions and tabletop exercises in training hospital staff to respond to an MCI. METHODS A systematic, evidence-based process was conducted incorporatin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of a routine incident reporting system in identifying patient safety incidents. DESIGN Two stage retrospective review of patients' case notes and analysis of data submitted to the routine incident reporting system on the same patients. SETTING A large NHS hospital in England. POPULATION 1006 hospital admissions between January and May 2004: surgery (n...

Objective: To explore the feasibility of a novel method for capturing adverse and potential adverse events within an urban teaching hospital obstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) service. Methods: At morning rounds during two 6-week periods, OB/GYN resident physicians were asked to complete incident reporting cards identifying obstacles to care, injuries or extended hospitalizations, and problems affe...

Introduction: A widely acknowledged aspect of emergency preparedness is hospital-wide staff education. Maintaining interest in hospital among challenging. education process involving a robust lecture and hands on donning doffing sessions followed by periodic disaster drills has been recently undertaken as quality improvement process. Method: prospective pre- post-test study 256 were given six-h...

Phenytoin has been in use for decades, but healthcare providers should remain alert to potential risks. Analysis of an incident report received through the National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR)* suggests opportunities to enhance system safeguards with this medication when prescribed for intravenous (IV) administration. The hospital where the incident occurred wanted to share the informa...

This paper describes the efforts of Stanford University’s Aerospace Robotics Laboratory (ARL), the Palo Alto – Mountain View (California) Regional Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, and the MLB Company to bridge the gap between the perception of potential uses of autonomous robots in police SWAT environments and the reality of their application. The ARL researchers were given freedom of m...

background and objectives: responsiveness is one of the hallmarks of high performance health systems. maintaining the responsiveness of health organizations at high level, require constant assessment of its situation as perceived by the patients. the accumulation of data on patients’ perception of health organizations’ responsiveness can help policy-makers in developing effective relevant strat...