Abstract
Last few years, safety management has been an urgent issue in hospitals of US, Europe and Japan. According to chart reviews in US and Europe, average frequency rate of medical accidents in hospital was 0.432% for one hospitalized patient. In order to prevent accidents, incident reporting system hasbeen introduced at hospital and national level. In Japan, Ministry of Health Labor Welfare has started incident reporting system since 2001 and already collected 10, 000 cases all over Japan. Root cause analysis (RCA), one of case analyzing methods for accident/incident cases was also reviewed in this article.
