[A1] |
Park & Song (2005) |
Assess fall incidence and analyze risk factors among stroke patients in a long-term care hospital |
Retrospective case-control study |
A long-term care hospital |
Stroke patients aged 60 and over admitted to hospital |
Data collected from medical records (May, 2002-Dec, 2004) |
Not specified |
Fall (14.2%) |
Not done |
Patients fall history, depression, agitation, urinary incontinence, use of quadruped cane/walker |
-Fall group: 62 |
-Non-fall group: 376 (438) |
[A2] |
Kim et al (2012) |
Investigate the discrepancies and associated factors in radiological interpretations between emergency physicians and radiologists for discharged trauma patients |
Retro- spective cross-sectional study |
A university hospital |
Minor trauma patients discharged based on emergency physicians’ interpretations being deemed normal (10,243) |
Medical records and radiological images interpreted as normal by emer- gency physicians before patient discharge (Aug, 2009-Jul, 2010) |
Not specified |
Misdiagnosis (0.77%) |
Not done |
Patient age, injured body area |
-clinically significant discrepancy (0.47%) |
-clinically insignificant discrepancy (0.30%) |
[A3] |
Lee & Kim (2012) |
Compare physical injury, emotional response and unplanned self-removal of medical devices between restrained and unrestrained patients |
Retrospective case-control study |
A university hospital (ICU7)) |
Patients ad- mitted to the ICU |
Data collected by observation and medical records using a structured instrument (Feb 2 - Jun 30, 2011) |
Not specified |
Injury (42.5%, calculated as the average) |
Restrained group |
Use of physical restraints |
-No injury: 22.5% |
-Restrained group: 40 |
-Restrained group (77.5%) |
-Injury: 77.5% |
Unrestrained group |
-Unrestrained group: 40 (80) |
-Unrestrained group (7.5%) |
-No injury: 92.5% |
-Injury: 7.5% |
[A4] |
Kim & Choi-Kwon (2013) |
Identify fall risk factors and evaluate the effectiveness of the Morse Fall Scale as an assessment tool |
Retrospective case-control study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Inpatients aged 15 years and over |
Data from electronic medical records and fall reports of patients (2010) |
Not specified |
Fall (0.19%) |
-No injury: 67.3% |
Patient visual disturbances, pain, emotional disturbances, sleep disorder, urination problems, elimination disorder, fall risk score |
-Fall group: 147 |
-Injury: 32.7% |
-Non-fall group: 147 (294) |
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[A5] |
Kim (2013) |
Determine whether national patient safety indicators can be calculated |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals with more than 100 beds |
Inpatients (875,622) |
Data from Korean National Hospital Discharge In-depth Injury Survey (2004-2008) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types (0.35%) |
Not done |
Factors by incident type |
-Decubitus ulcer (0.49%) |
-Decubitus ulcer: Patient gender, age, insurance type, number of comorbidities, hospital bed size, hospital location |
-Foreign body left during procedure (0.01%) |
-Selected infections due to medical care: Patient insurance type, number of comorbidities, hospital bed size, hospital location |
-Selected infections due to medical care (0.02%) |
-Postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis: Patient gender, age, number of comorbidities, hospital bed size |
-Postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (0.09%) |
-Postoperative sepsis: Patient gender, age, insurance type, hospital location |
-Postoperative sepsis (0.13%) |
-Accidental puncture or laceration: Patient gender, age, insurance type, number of comorbidities, hospital bed size, hospital location |
-Accidental puncture or laceration (0.07%) |
-Birth trauma—injury to neonate: Patient number of comorbidities, hospital location |
-Birth trauma—injury to neonate (0.79%) |
-Obstetric trauma—vaginal delivery: Hospital location |
-Obstetric trauma—vaginal delivery (3.28%) |
[A6] |
Hwang et al (2014) |
Examine the performance of the Global Trigger Tool and investigate patient and health care utilization characteristics associated with adverse events |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Adult patients (629) |
Data collected from medical records and the hospital information system, involving a random sample of 630 patient charts discharged (Jan-Jun, 2011) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types (7.2%) |
-Mild harm: 55.1% |
Hospital length of stay, number of triggers |
-procedure-related excluding infection (46.9%) |
-medication-related (20.4%) |
-health care-related infection (14.3%) |
-Moderate harm: 26.5% |
-pressure ulcers (8.2%) |
-Severe harm: 18.4% |
-falls (4.1%) |
-others (6.1%) |
[A7] |
Hong et al (2015) |
Investigate fall risk factors and their influence on patient outcomes |
Retrospective case-control study |
A tertiary hospital |
Inpatients |
Electronic medical records (Oct, 2008-Jun, 2011) |
Donabedian Structure-Process-Outcome model |
Fall |
Not done |
Patient age, tachycardia, hyponatremia, registration in the national registry, previous emergency room visit, low oxygen saturation (decreased fall risk), hypokalemia (decreased fall risk), hospital length of stay, medical department, rooms containing more than two beds, preventive intervention, introduction of fall prevention reinforcement policy, longer period of medication administration for nerve agents, cardiovascular agents, respiratory agents, endocrine and metabolize agents, adrenal corticosteroids, and laxatives, number of medications administered to patients, number of average laboratory and diagnostic tests per day |
-Fall group: 868 |
-Non-fall group: 3,472 (4,340) |
[A8] |
Kang & Song (2015) |
Identify falls and related risks of inpatients |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A university hospital |
Patients who experienced falls (120) |
Data from electronic medical records (Jun, 2010-Dec, 2013) |
Not specified |
Fall |
-No injury: 45.0% |
Factors by Age, Gender, Department |
-Laceration: 20.8% |
-Abrasion: 18.4% |
-By Age: Level of consciousness, use of cardiovascular medications |
-Fracture: 11.7% |
-By Gender: Musculoskeletal disorders |
-Hematoma: 3.3% |
-By Department: Patient activity status, respiratory disorders, musculoskeletal disorders |
-ICU care: 0.8% |
[A9] |
Lim & Gu (2016) |
Examine fall circumstances and identify risk factors among inpatients with dementia in a long-term care hospital |
Retrospective case-control study |
A long-term care hospital |
Dementia patients |
Data from patients’ medical records and fall reports (2013-2014) |
Not specified |
Fall (11.7%) |
-No injury: 47.3% |
Patient arrhythmia, urinary problems, unstable gait, behavioral and psychological symptoms, use of diuretics and antidepressant drugs, fall risk score, caregiver presence, use of a hospital bed |
-Bruise: 12.1% |
-Laceration: 11.0% |
-Abrasion: 12.1% |
-Fall group: 84 |
-Redness: 8.8% |
-Non-fall group: 168 (252) |
-Swelling: 2.7% |
-Fracture: 3.8% |
-Hematoma: 7.7% |
[A10] |
Cho & Lee (2017) |
Identify factors affecting injury occurrence from inpatient falls in a tertiary hospital |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Patients who experienced falls (428) |
Fall incidents data from the patient-safety reporting system in the hospital’s electronic health records (2015) |
Not specified |
Fall |
-No injury: 54.0% |
Patient physical factors, moving alone, patient and caregiver negligence, use of assistive devices, environmental factors |
-Injury: 46.0% |
[A11] |
Choi et al (2017) |
Investigate the status of falls among inpatients in general hospitals and identify hospital-specific fall risk factors |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
General hospitals with more than 500 beds |
PSIs related to falls (2,174) Nurse survey on the importance of fall risk factors (223) |
-Inpatient fall rate: Falls reported in 18 hospitals (2015) |
Not specified |
Fall (0.05%) |
-No injury: 59.5% |
Patient age, history of falls, physical mobility disorders requiring assistance, physical factors (dizziness or vertigo, unstable gait, general weakness, walking aids, visual problems), cognitive factors(delirium, lack of understanding on limitations), neurological disease, CNS2) medications |
-Fall frequency based on the characteristics of patients who experienced falls: Fall reports collected from 32 hospitals |
-Moderate: 34.8% |
-Usage of fall risk assessment tools: Data from 32 hospitals |
-Severe: 5.6% |
-Survey on the importance of fall risk factors: Survey collected between Dec 15, 2016 and Jan 15, 2017 from 32 hospitals |
-Death: 0.1% |
[A12] |
Jun et al (2018) |
Identify risk factors and predictors of falls in hospitalized cancer patients by examining their general characteristics, conscious state, physical conditions, and treatment |
Retrospective case-control study |
A national cancer center |
Inpatients with cancer |
Data from fall incident reports and patients’ electronic medical records (2013-2014) |
Not specified |
Fall |
Not done |
Patient history of falls, use of an assistive device, fatigue |
-Fall group:178 |
-Non-fall group:178 (356) |
[A13] |
Ock et al (2018) |
Identify adverse events in Korea, using International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (ICD-10) Y codes |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Medical institutions |
Adverse events (20,817) |
Data from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort (2002-2013) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types (0.2%) |
Not done |
Not done |
-Related to drugs, transfusions, and fluids (93.4%) |
-Related to vaccines and immunoglobulin (0.34%) |
-Related to surgery and procedures (5.81%) |
-Related to infections (0.3%) |
-Related to devices (0.15%) |
-Others (0.01%) |
[A14] |
Jung & Lee (2019) |
Identify factors and outcomes associated with falls in patients admitted to hematology units |
Retrospective case-control study |
A tertiary general hospital (Hematology unit) |
Inpatients |
Medical records from patients who were admitted to the hematology unit (2013-2014) |
Donabedian Structure-Process-Outcome model |
Fall |
Not done |
Patient self-care, leukopenia, hypoalbuminemia, use of narcotics, antipsychotics, and steroids, low education |
-Fall group: 117 |
-Non-fall group: 201 (318) |
[A15] |
Kim et al (2019) |
Investigate individual and organizational factors influencing patient falls in hospitals |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals (Integrated nursing care service unit) |
Patients who were admitted to integrated nursing care units (60,049) |
Hospitals submitted daily data to the National Health Insurance (Apr, 2017-Jun, 2017) |
Not specified |
Fall (0.09%) |
Not done |
Patient age, mobility impairment, RN-HPPD15)
|
[A16] |
Lee et al (2019) |
Describe and analyze the errors associated with postoperative IV PCA |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A university hospital |
Patients who used IV PCA delivery devices (45,104) |
Medical records of all patients who received IV PCA (2010-2013) |
Not specified |
IV PCA related (0.9%) |
Not done |
Not done |
-Operator error (54.7%) |
-Device malfunction (32.3%) |
-Prescription error (12.3%) |
-Patient error (0.7%) |
[A17] |
Son et al (2019) |
Investigate the incident rate and characteristics of falls in patients using integrated nursing care services |
Retrospective cohort study |
A general hospital |
|
Data from fall reports and medical records (Jul, 2013-Jun, 2017) |
Not specified |
|
Case group: |
Utilization of integrated nursing care service, patient gender, age, hospital length of stay |
|
|
-No injury: 73.1% |
Patients |
Fall (0.1%, calculated as the average) |
-Minor injury: 24.7% |
-Case group: 62,445 patients using integrated nursing care service |
-Case group (0.11%) |
-Major injury: 2.2% |
-Control group (0.09%) |
Control group: |
-Control group: 53,193 patients in general wards (115,638) |
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-No injury: 77.1% |
|
-Minor injury: 20.3% |
|
-Major injury: 2.6% |
[A18] |
Kim (2020) |
Analyze factors related to patient safety incidents |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals with more than 500 beds |
PSIs (3,757) |
Data from Korea Institute for Health-care Accreditation (2018) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
|
Not done |
-Infection and contamination (10.4%) |
|
-Surgery, anesthe- sia, and examina- tion (12.6%) |
-Near miss: 47.9% |
-Falls (40.5%) |
-Adverse event: 46.5% |
-Transfusion and medication (25.9%) |
-Sentinel event: 5.6% |
-Medical equipment and Computational disorder (1.2%) |
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-Others (9.4%) |
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[A19] |
Kim et al (2020) |
Describe patient safety incidents and injury factors for hospital patients with HMV6)
|
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A tertiary general hospital (General ward) |
Adult patients receiving HMV (304) |
Data from the work logs of respiratory home care nurses and patients’ electronic medical records (Aug, 2018-Dec, 2019) |
Not specified |
HMV-related incidents (42.4%) |
-No injury: 81.0% |
Patients who received HMV after surgery |
-Injury: 19.0% (mild injury 14.5%, moderate injury 4.5%, severe injury 0.0%) |
[A20] |
Lee (2020) |
Investigate characteristics and factors affecting falls in children inpatients |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals |
Children inpatients who experienced falls (116) |
Data from Korean National Hospital Discharge In-depth Injury Survey (2008-2017) |
Not specified |
Fall |
Not done |
Patient age, diagnosis, injury type |
[A21] |
Lee et al (2020) |
Explore characteristics and predictors of falls in high- and low-risk inpatients |
Retrospective case-control study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Patients |
Data from Quality improvement reports and electronic health records (Jun, 2014-May, 2015) |
Not specified |
Fall (10.9%) |
Not done |
Factors by fall risk group |
-High-risk and non-fall group (1,918) |
-High-risk group: Patient education, surgery, intravenous catheter placement, gait disturbance, use of narcotics, vasodilators, antiarrhythmics, and hypnotics, medical department |
-High-risk and fall group (309) |
-Low-risk and non-fall group (1,749) |
-Low-risk and fall group (138) (4,144) |
-Low-risk group: Patient gender, age, hospital length of stay, surgery, liver-digestive diseases |
[A22] |
Ahn & Kim (2021) |
Examine factors influencing the degree of harm from falls in hospitals |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals |
PSIs related to falls (4,176) |
Fall incidents data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2019) |
International Classification for Patient Safety conceptual framework |
Fall |
-Near miss: 29.2% |
Not done |
-Adverse event: 60.2% |
-Sentinel event: 10.6% |
[A23] |
Hong & Kim (2021) |
Determine the factors affecting the time taken to detect a fall |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Medical institutions (Excluding psychiatric hospitals and Korean medicine hospitals) |
PSIs related to fall (3,470) |
Fall incidents data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2018) |
Not specified |
Fall |
-Near miss: 33.0% |
Not done |
-Adverse event: 56.7% |
-Sentinel event: 10.3% |
[A24] |
Kim & Lee (2021) |
Analyze factors related to in-hospital death of injured patients by patient safety accidents |
Retrospective cohort study |
Hospitals with more than 100 beds |
Inpatients (1,529) |
Data from Korean National Hospital Discharge In-depth Injury Survey (2013-2017) |
Not specified |
Injury |
-Survivors: 93.7% |
Not done |
-Deaths: 6.3% |
[A25] |
Kim & Lee (2021) |
Identify characteristics of fall incidents and fall rate among hospitalized children |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
General and Tertiary general hospitals with more than 200 beds |
PSIs related to children (723) |
Data for those aged 0-19 years from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation and the National Health Insurance Corporation (2018) |
Not specified |
Fall (0.01%) |
-No risk: 47.0% |
Not done |
-Recovery after treatment without complication: 36.8% |
-Temporary damage: 14.5% |
-Long-term damage: 1.7% |
[A26] |
Koo (2021) |
Identify and analyze characteristics of nurses’ medication errors |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A university hospital |
PSIs related to medication by nurse (677) |
Data from medication error reports (2017-2019) |
Not specified |
Medication related |
|
Nurse overwork, fatigue, inadequate confirmation of doctor’s prescription and misinterpretation, non-compliance with patient double check, lack of drug knowledge and training, carelessness for repetitive work, two or more tasks at the same time, communication problems (handover, verbal order, etc.) |
-Wrong patient (14.9%) |
|
-Wrong drug (11.3%) |
-Near miss: 56.0% |
-Wrong dose (37.1%) |
-Adverse event: 44.0% |
-Wrong time/fre- quency (18.5%) |
-Sentinel event: 0.0% |
-Omission (12.4%) |
|
-Extravasation/in- filtration (5.8%) |
|
[A27] |
Shin & Won (2021) |
Analyze patient safety incidents trends and their associated factors |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
General hospitals with more than 200 beds |
PSIs (16,215) |
Data from the Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2017-2019) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
|
Not done |
-Falls (56.4%) |
|
-Medication/trans- fusion (18.0%) |
-Near miss: 34.5% |
-Surgery/anesthe- sia/examination (9.8%) |
-Adverse event: 56.7% |
-Infection/contam- ination (2.8%) |
-Sentinel event: 8.8% |
-Equipment/com- putational disorder (1.0%) |
|
-Others (12.1%) |
|
[A28] |
Jeon & Jeong (2022) |
Identify characteristics of patient safety incidents in medical institutions and factors affecting harm severity |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Medical institutions |
PSIs (12,512) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2018-2020) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
|
Not done |
-Infection/contam- ination (3.2%) |
-Near miss: 42.0% |
-Surgery/anesthe- sia, examination (14.7%) |
-Adverse event: 52.9% |
-Falls (54.5%) |
-Sentinel event: 5.0% |
-Transfusion, Medication/drug administration (26.1%) |
|
-Medical equip- ment/computer system failure (1.5%) |
|
[A29] |
Kang et al (2022) |
Compare adverse events between a VRE19) contact isolation group and a matched comparison group |
Retrospective cohort study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Hospitalized adult patients |
Electronic medical records for adult patients who were hospitalized (2015-2017) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types VRE patients |
Not done |
Not significantly associated with contact isolation |
-VRE patients: 177 |
-Pressure ulcers (0.25%) |
-Patients with no VRE history: 93,022 (98,529) |
-Falls (0.09%) |
Patients with no VRE history |
-Pressure ulcers (0.16%) |
-Falls (0.13%) |
[A30] |
Kim et al (2022) |
Evaluate TB18) misdiagnosis incidence, associated risk factors, and diseases causing misdiagnoses |
Prospective cohort study |
University hospitals |
TB cases notified be- tween 2011 and 2019 (8,886) |
Data from the Korean National Tuberculosis Surveillance System from 5 hospitals (2011-2019) |
Not specified |
Misdiagnosis (7.6%) |
Not done |
-PTB13) misdiagnosis: History of TB, chronic respiratory disease, autoimmune disease, acid-fast-bacilli smear-positive with TB PCR11) -negative respiratory specimen |
-EPTB4) misdiagnosis: Patient gender, HIV5) infection, organ transplantation, CNS involvement |
[A31] |
Kim et al (2022) |
Assess differences in adverse event rates among 15 regional public hospitals and identify their detailed characteristics |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Public hospitals with more than 200 beds |
Patients (7,500) |
Medical records data of 500 randomly selected patients discharged from each of the 15 regional public hospitals (2016) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types (9.9%) |
-Temporary Harm: 70.8% |
Not done |
-Patient care–related (33.5%) |
-Prolonged Hospital Stay: 24.1% |
-Drugs/fluids/blood-related (26.0%) |
-Permanent Harm: 0.2% |
-Surgery/procedural-related (17.8%) |
-Sustain Life: 0.7% |
-Infection-related (15.7%) |
-Death: 4.2% |
-Diagnosis-related (7.0%) |
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[A32] |
Lee & Kim (2022) |
Identify predictors of falls based on risk level in general hospital inpatients |
Retrospective case-control study |
A general hospital |
Inpatients aged 18 years and over |
Data from electronic medical records (2017-2019) |
Not specified |
Fall |
Not done |
Factors by fall risk |
-Fall group: 170 |
-Low-risk group: Defecation disorder, laxative use |
-Non-fall group: 340 (510) |
-Medium-risk group: Disorientation |
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-High-risk group: Disorientation, hypoglycemic agent use |
[A33] |
Yoon (2022) |
Identify factors related to medication errors in hospital-level healthcare facilities |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals (Excluding psychiatric, traditional medicine hospitals) |
PSIs related to medication (1,705) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2021) |
Not specified |
Medication related |
-Near miss: 70.4% |
Not done |
-Adverse event: 26.1% |
-Sentinel event: 3.5% |
[A34] |
Yoon & Kang (2022) |
Determine severity of patient safety incidents and associated factors in Long-term Care Hospital settings |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Long-term care hospitals |
PSIs (5,316) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2018-2020) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
|
Not done |
-Falls (81.4%) |
-Near miss: 22.8% |
-Others (11.9%) |
-Adverse event: 55.6% |
-Medication/examination/procedure (4.4%) |
-Sentinel event: 21.6% |
-Meal (1.2%) |
|
-Suicide/self-harm (1.1%) |
|
[A35] |
Yoon et al (2022) |
Characterize medication errors from pre- scribing to use and monitoring in a medical intensive care unit |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
A university hospital |
Adult patients (293) |
Electronic medical records for patients in the MICU9) (2017) |
Not specified |
Medication related (92.5%) |
|
Inappropriate dose, drug, and treatment duration |
-Drug selection (27.8%) |
|
-Dosage form (2.7%) |
-No harm: 64.8% |
-Dose selection (35.5%) |
-Temporary harm: 32.4% |
-Treatment duration (25.1%) |
-Permanent harm: 1.9% |
-Dispensing (5.3%) |
-Life-threatening: 0.6% |
-Administration (3.6%) |
-Death: 0.3% |
-Monitoring (0.04%) |
|
[A36] |
Cho et al (2023) |
Identify factors related to patient safety incidents in medical institutions to develop prevention strategies |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Medical institutions |
PSIs (45,137) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2019-2022) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
|
Not done |
-Medication (18.4%) |
|
-Falls (52.3%) |
-Near miss: 46.9% |
-Harm (2.1%) |
-Adverse event: 48.0% |
-Examination (4.5%) |
-Sentinel event: 5.1% |
-Treatment/Procedure (0.9%) |
|
-Operation (1.3%) |
|
-Others (20.6%) |
|
[A37] |
Cho et al (2023) |
Investigate the incidence, patient factors, and clinical outcomes of misdiagnosis of STEMI17) as NSTEMI10)
|
Prospective cohort study |
Teaching hospitals |
Patients diagnosed with STEMI after coronary angiography (11,796) |
Data from the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (Nov, 2011-Jun, 2020) |
Not specified |
Misdiagnosis (1.4%) |
Not done |
-Higher Odds: Previous heart failure, atypical chest pain, anemia, symptom-to-door time≥4 hours |
|
|
|
-Lower Odds: SBP16) <100mm Hg, anterior ST elevation, left bundle-branch block on ECG3)
|
[A38] |
Han et al (2023) |
Describe and analyze medication errors reported by community pharmacists |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Community pharmacies |
PSIs related to medication (9,046) |
Medication error reports from the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (Jan, 2013-Jun, 2021) |
Not specified |
Medication related |
|
Not done |
-Wrong drug (42.2%) |
|
-Dosing error (26.9%) |
|
-Wrong duration (12.9%) |
-Near miss: 88.3% |
-Omission error (5.7%) |
-No harm: 1.3% |
-Wrong form/route (3.3%) |
-Mild harm: 2.9% |
-Wrong patient (1.7%) |
-Moderate harm: 1.5% |
-Wrong count (0.6%) |
-Severe harm: 0.1% |
-Wrong storage (0.1%) |
-Missing: 6.0% |
-Expired medication (0.1%) |
|
-Mislabeling (0.2%) |
|
-Others (4.0%) |
|
-Missing (2.6%) |
|
[A39] |
Hong (2023) |
Investigateand analyze patient safety incidents in an emergency department by type, frequency, hospital, and patient factors |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Hospitals with more than 200 beds (Emergency department) |
PSIs (1,118) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2017-2021) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
-Near miss: 43.0% |
Not done |
-Falls (33.1%) |
-Medication (33.0%) |
-Examination-related incidents (11.4%) |
-Adverse event: 51.7% |
-Surgical, procedural/interventional, anesthesia, and transfusion incidents (4.1%) |
-Medical equipment/device faults, contaminated medical supplies, consumable medical supplies issues (3.2%) |
-Infections (3.0%) |
-Sentinel event: 5.3% |
-Suicide, self-harm (0.5%) |
-Other (11.6%) |
[A40] |
Jeon & Jeong (2023) |
Determine the effect of nurses’ shift time on medication errors in hospitalized children |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
General and Tertiary general hospitals |
PSIs involving children aged 0-9 years (365) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (Jul, 2016-Dec, 2020) |
Not specified |
Medication related |
-Near miss: 54.5% |
Not done |
-Adverse & Sentinel event: 45.5% |
[A41] |
Kim & Lee (2023) |
Identify the impact of patient safety incidents on hospital stay length |
Retrospective case-control study |
Hospitals with more than 100 beds |
Inpatients |
Data from Korean National Hospital Discharge In-depth Injury Survey (2016-2020) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
Not done |
Not done |
-Falls (67.0%) |
-Patients with incidents: 469 |
-Exposure to inanimate mechanical forces (8.5%) |
-Exposure to accidents due to other and unspecified factors (10.0%) |
-Patients without inci- dents: 1,876 (2,345) |
-Complications of medical and surgical care (0.4%) |
-Others (14.0%) |
[A42] |
Kim et al (2023) |
Determine predictors and risk factors of falls in hospitalized patients with cancer |
Retrospective case-control study |
A national cancer center |
Adult cancer patients aged 19 and older |
Data from medical records (2020) |
Not specified |
Fall |
Not done |
Number of attachment devices, medication, pain, walking problem, chemotherapy, fall risk score, caregiver presence |
-Fall group: 282 |
-Non-fall group: 283 (565) |
[A43] |
Kwon et al (2023) |
Identify fall risk factors and establish automatic risk assessments using electronic medical records of hospitalized patients |
Retrospective case-control study |
A tertiary general hospital |
Patients |
Electronic medical records for patients who were hospitalized (2017) |
Not specified |
Fall |
Not done |
65 laboratory results (e.g., low BMI1), low blood pressure, low albumin, high fasting blood sugar, low RBC14) counts, high potassium) and 21 clinical/nursing assessment items (e.g., frequent bowel movements, 24 hour urine tests, imaging, biopsy, pain, IV tubes, unclear consciousness, medication) |
-Fall group: 292 |
-Non-fall group: 1,168 (1,454) |
[A44] |
Shim & Hong (2023) |
Investigate occurrence and risk levels of patient safety incidents in mental health department |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
General and tertiary general hospitals with more than 200 beds (Psychiatric department) |
PSIs (521) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2017-2021) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
-Near miss: 31.7% |
Not done |
-Falls (57.2%) |
-Medication (14.4%) |
-Adverse event: 68.3% |
-Suicide/self-harm (13.4%) |
-Others (15.0%) |
[A45] |
Shin et al (2023) |
Use a decision tree from patient safety incidents to identify vulnerable groups and provide key data |
Retrospective cross-sectional study |
Medical institutions |
PSIs (8,934) |
Data from Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation (2021) |
Not specified |
Multiple Types |
-Near miss: 45.9% |
Not done |
-Fall (60.1%) |
-Drug/transfusion error (18.2%) |
-Examination error (4.0%) |
-Injury (4.1%) |
-Adverse event (including sentinel event): 54.1% |
-Treatment/procedure (1.7%) |
-Medical materials contamination (0.6%) |
-Infection (0.6%) |
-Others (10.7%) |