Open AccessIncident reporting in post-operative patients managed by acute pain service
Author(s) -
Syeda Hasan,
Mohammad Hamid
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.171561
Subject(s) - medicine , incident report , medical emergency , observational study , emergency medicine , near miss , incident management , patient safety , health care , forensic engineering , management , engineering , economics , economic growth
Incident reporting is a reliable and inexpensive tool used in anaesthesia to identify errors in patient management. A hospital incident reporting system was already present in our hospital, but we were unable to find any incident related to acute pain management. Hence, acute pain service (APS) was started for voluntary incident reporting in post-operative patients to identify critical incidents, review the root cause and suggest remedial measures.