Table 1.
Characteristics of the incidents and presence or absence of planned improvement actions with differences between the groups
| Characteristics | Planned improvement actions | Actions per case | |||||
| Total | Yes | No | mean | OR | 95% CI | P value | |
| n | n (%) | ||||||
| Incidents groups based on incident type | 1973 | 1643 (83) | 330 (17) | <0.001* | |||
| Clinical processes and related care | 561 | 463 (83) | 98 (17) | 0.10 | 0.74 to 1.35 | 0.988† | |
| Clinical process/procedure | 297 | 238 (80) | 59 (20) | 1.4 | |||
| Documentation | 165 | 147 (89) | 18 (11) | 1.1 | |||
| Clinical administration | 52 | 38 (73) | 14 (27) | 1.1 | |||
| Healthcare-associated infections | 31 | 30 (97) | 1 (3) | 1.6 | |||
| Nutrition | 16 | 10 (63) | 6 (37) | 1.4 | |||
| Medications and transfusion treatment | 107 | 99 (93) | 8 (7) | 2.61 | 1.23 to 5.53 | 0.012† | |
| Medication/intravenous fluids | 86 | 81 (94) | 5 (6) | 1.3 | |||
| Blood/blood products | 21 | 18 (86) | 3 (14) | 1 | |||
| Equipment | |||||||
| Medical device/equipment | 50 | 43 (86) | 7 (14) | 1.2 | 1.30 | 0.57 to 2.96 | 0.537† |
| People’s behaviour | 608 | 502 (83) | 106 (17) | 1(ref) | |||
| Behaviour (patient) | 587 | 484 (82) | 103 (18) | 1.8 | |||
| Behaviour (relatives and other) | 21 | 18 (86) | 3 (14) | 1.9 | |||
| Accidents with patients | |||||||
| Patient accident | 379 | 336 (89) | 43 (11) | 1.9 | 1.65 | 1.13 to 2.41 | 0.010† |
| Work organisation and environment | 268 | 200 (75) | 68 (25) | 0.62 | 0.44 to 0.88 | 0.007† | |
| Resources management | 152 | 109 (72) | 43 (28) | 1.2 | |||
| Staff behaviour | 63 | 44 (70) | 19 (30) | 1.1 | |||
| Infrastructure/building/fixtures | 53 | 47 (89) | 6 (11) | 1.2 | |||
| Level of patient harm | 1973 | 1643 (83) | 330 (17) | 0.001* | |||
| None | 782 | 638 (82) | 144 (18) | 1(ref) | |||
| Mild | 585 | 483 (83) | 102 (17) | 1.07 | 0.81 to 1.41 | 0.641† | |
| Moderate | 561 | 491 (88) | 70 (12) | 1.58 | 1.16 to 2.16 | 0.004† | |
| Severe/death | 45 | 31 (69) | 14 (31) | 0.50 | 0.26 to 0.96 | 0.038† | |
| Patient age | 346 | 308 (89) | 38 (11) | 0.002‡ | |||
| Newborn/infant (1 day to 1 year) | 29 | 24 (83) | 5 (17) | 0.44 | 0.15 to 1.28 | 0.132† | |
| Child/adolescent (1<+20) | 249 | 228 (92) | 21 (8) | 1(ref) | |||
| Adult (20<+65) | 21 | 16 (76) | 5 (24) | 0.29 | 0.10 to 0.88 | 0.029† | |
| Elderly (65<) | 47 | 40 (85) | 7 (15) | 0.53 | 0.21 to 1.32 | 0.171† | |
| Incident time | 323 | 265 (82) | 58 (18) | 0.839* | |||
| Morning | 94 | 77 (82) | 17 (18) | ||||
| Afternoon | 85 | 71 (84) | 14 (16) | ||||
| Evening | 80 | 67 (84) | 13 (16) | ||||
| Night | 64 | 50 (78) | 14 (22) | ||||
*Pearson’s χ2 test.
†Logistic regression model.
‡Fisher’s exact test.
!, Bold figures indicate statistically significant values.