Class: Risk_management_incident

Description of: Risk_management_incident

Class steward is Patient Administration
Interested committees Orders/Observation
An occurrence of an event pertaining or attaching to a patient encounter.

OpenIssue: This class carries no association to indicate who documented the incident and when it was documented. Should not this be a special type of event/observation rather than a separate, free-hanging class?

Attribute definitions for: Risk_management_incident

incident_cd ::

A code depicting the incident type (e.g., body fluid exposure, equipment problem, inpatient fall, medication error, . . .).

incident_dttm ::

The date and time the incident occurred.

incident_severity_cd ::

A code depicting the potential impact of an incident on the quality of patient care.

OpenIssue: Need code examples.

incident_type_cd ::

A code depicting a classification of the incident type (e.g., preventable, user error, . . .).

Association definitions for: Risk_management_incident

pertains_to (1,1) :: Patient_encounter :: has (0,n)