Development of the incident reporting system using the nursing administrative database.

A role of incident reporting system has become more important for improving of the patient safety. However, the more various causes managers seek for, the longer time healthcare providers send to report near-miss/ medical errors. The purpose of our work was to try to develop "the incident reporting system" utilized the nursing administrative database.

Survey of actual conditions of reasons for nurse calls: comparing a surgical ward and a medical ward.

We believe that nurse calls can play a role not merely as a means to convey patients' needs, but also as a medium to analyze and predict patients' needs using historical data of nurse calls. Therefore, we conducted a survey of actual conditions of nurse calls using "call history management system" developed for welfare institutions. The survey was intended to show patients' needs accurately by individually associating historical data, which can be collected through an information system, with reasons for calling, which usually cannot be collected automatically.