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In terms of concerning patients, cognitive factors, communication and challenging behaviour are some of the common contributing factors. Most commonly caused fall incidents which usually result in minor or no harm, yet about 1% resulted in serious harm or even death.
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or incident reporting system. It includes a set of preventable adverse events that result in serious harm or death to a patient. These events are clearly defined and recognized as being preventable if the proper safeguards are in place.
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Most of the incidents are falls, concerning behavior and skin integrity such as pressure injuries which result in minor or no harm. About 272 cases which include sentinel events are of significant harm.
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As fall incidents often occur in healthcare facilities, government has therefore applied a knee break function preventing patient from sliding down the bed which aims to reduce fall incidents.
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In 2021, New South Wales has 83,355 incidents in which 96.5% are Harm Score 3 and 4 which are minor or no harm. 0.3% are of Harm Score 1 which include about 20 sentinel events.
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in the world with most incidents recorded are of minor or no harm, a very low rate of medical incidents causing significant harm to patients.
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Most incidents are falls, medication and challenging behavior, fortunately most of which 99% are near miss or no harm including medication.
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Adie, Khaled; Fois, Romano A.; McLachlan, Andrew J.; Walpola, Ramesh L.; Chen, Timothy F. (2021).
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