Abstract
Incident reporting system is one of the information gathering method in healthcare risk management. Before 2002, incident reports were gathered by paper from nurses division only. After 2003, reports were gathered through local area network (LAN) from all occupational categories in hospital. The incident reports by paper from July to December in 2002 were compared to the reports through LAN from July to December in 2003. As a result, number of incident reports by paper was 1367 cases and that through LAN was 2177 cases. It has increased by a factor of 1.5. In the incident reports through LAN, the nursing employment accounted for 86% of the content of occupational category. The number of report from doctor, clerical work staff and pharmacist was little. By sharing and analyzing the incident report through LAN, we could respond more quickly to the incident.
