Major Sentinel Events in Healthcare Organisation

 

Healthcare organizations major sentinel events indicate that nearly 90% fall into the following categories:

•                      Anesthesia-Related Event

•                      Criminal Event

•                      Delay in Treatment

•                      Dialysis-Related Event

•                      Elopement

•                      Fall

•                      Fire

•                      Infant Abduction

•                      Infant Discharge to the Wrong Family

•                      Infection-Related Event

•                      Inpatient Drug Overdose

•                      Maternal Death

•                      Medical Equipment–Related

•                      Medication Error

•                      Op/Post-Op Complication

•                      Perinatal Death/Injury

•                      Radiation Overdose

•                      Restraint-Related Event

•                      Self-Inflicted Injury

•                      Severe Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia

•                      Suicide

•                      Transfer-Related Event

•                      Transfusion Error

•                      Unassigned

•                      Unintended Retention of a Foreign Body

•                      Utility System Failure

•                      Ventilator Death

•                      Wrong-Patient, Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure

 

Sivakumar Murugesan

Healthcare Project and Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Consultant