Featured blog post: Incident report or educational opportunity?

As the medical affairs office at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas reviewed incident reports from across the hospital, we felt the need to clearly define what actions warrant an incident report (which requires the medical staff to track and trend subsequent actions) versus an event that represents an educational opportunity.

Incident reports are filed electronically through our organization’s intranet. All incidents involving physicians are routed to the medical affairs office for review and then presented to the appropriate medical staff leaders. Primarily, an incident report is classified either as a behavior concern, a rule or compliance violation, or a quality of care issue.

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