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CRitical Incident Monitoring in Emergency Medicine
Database

Version 5.2

Welcome to CRIME-base Brighton©, a system for collecting information anonymously about Critical Incidents that arise in Emergency Medicine departments. You can read about Critical Incidents Here or Go straight to the start of an On-line Report form

You can also contect to the CRIME-base Brighton© Feedback Page

Background Information about Critical Incidents

What is a critical incident ?

A Critical Incident is any incident or event which has caused or could have caused an adverse outcome for a patient. An example might be a needle stick injury to a patient, a fall off a trolley, the wrong dose of a drug or a patient leaving the department before being seen.

Why bother reporting critical incidents ?

Risk Management is notorious for focussing on patching up events that have already occurred. By developing a database of critical incidents which occur in emergency departments we will be able to focus our attention towards prevention once patterns start to evolve. Furthermore once we have a database of the types of incidents that arise we will be able to focus teaching on areas of need.

How long is this going to take ?

You should be able to complete the report of your incident in just a few minutes. It's dead easy really, just click on the relevant buttons as you go, add some free text in the boxes if you wish and press on the submit button at the end.

What's in it for me ?

We will give you a monthly feedback about critical incidents that you have reported. You have the opportunity by reporting incidents to make a contribution towards changing practice in emergency medicine for the better. This in turn will make life easier for you and better for the patient.

On-line Reporting Form

Section 1: Incident Details -

1.1. Who is reporting the incident

Please select one of the following categories

Please type how many years since you have qualified:

Please type how many years of experience in emergency medicine:

If your were the person who reports and was involved in the incident, please check this box and proceed to section 2. Otherwise, proceed to section 1.2.

1.2 Who is involved in the incident -

Please select one of the following categories

Only for Medical, Nursing and Paramedical Personnel:

Please type (if known) how many years since the person involved in the incident has qualified:

Please type (if known) how many years of experience in emergency medicine::

Section 2: Who identified the incident -

Please indicate who identified the incident:

Section 3: Where and When the critical incident occurred -

Please select one of the following areas of the Emergency Department:

Please specify the date the incident occurred (dd-mm-yy)

Please select:

Please specify the approximate time of the day the incident occurred (hh:mm)

Section 4: Patient Data -
Sex: Male Female
Age:
Which Specialty was responsible for the patient when the Incident occurred ?:
Was the Incident related to an Investigation ?
Please type the a short clinical history for the patient:
Section 5: Critical Incident Data -
Triage Category
Was the nature of the patient's main complaint Medical
Was the nature of the patient's main complaint Surgical
Or was the complaint related to another specialty ?
Was the complaint a drug error ?
In your opinion what was the most likely reason for the Critical Incident ?
If the Incident was a complaint by the patient or relative what was the principle complaint ?


Section 6: Outcome Details -
Were adverse effects realised ? yes no not known
What was the degree of the effect ? mild moderate severe life threatening not known
What was the potential degree of the effect ? mild moderate severe life threatening not known
What was the duration of the effect ? short-term intermediate long-term not known
What grade of Critical Incident do you think this was ? minor intermediate major
What corrective action was taken (if any) ?


Section 7: Recommendations -
What actions were taken to guard against similar events in the future:
In your opinion, how can an incident like this be prevented in future:

Submitting your Critical Incident Report

Thank you for completing this form. It will be a big help in compiling a database of critical incidents that occur in emergency departments. We will give feedback to the department soon and share any important messages from the data collected. Please come back soon and report another incident if you become aware of any.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR FORM NOW!

             Click here to submit your report.
 

                 If you click at this button the form is automatically reset in its original values.

A&E RSCH - logo - Click to go to homepage The Critical Incident Monitoring in Emergency Medicine Database CRIME-base Brighton© Project is run jointly between the Emergency Medicine Department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at The University of Birmingham. The University of Birmingham - logo - Click to go to homepage 

If you have any comments at all about this monitoring system please contact Dr John Ryan at the Emergency Department RSCH

Any queries about this project should be addressed to: Dr. Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Lecturer (The University of Birmingham), t.arvanitis@bham.ac.uk or Dr John Ryan, Consultant & Senior Lecturer (Emergency Department RSCH, Brighton), ryanj@pavilion.co.uk This page runs on the WWW server of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Last modified: Fri  Jul 14  21:03:06 GMT 2000

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