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Ventilator alarms that go unnoticed for extended periods of time often result in permanent patient harm or death.
At our institution, the permanent patient questionnaire consists of 17 reporting questions on concrete relevant situations applying a multi-item technique.
Therefore, only the NCC MERP categories E through I are included: temporary harm to the patient and required intervention (category E), temporary harm to the patient and required initial or prolonged hospitalisation (category F), permanent patient harm (category G), intervention required to sustain life (category H) and patient death (category I).
For admitted patients, we will also report clinical severity according to categories used by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) trigger tool: (1) temporary harm to the patient requiring intervention, (2) temporary harm to the patient requiring initial or prolonged hospitalisation, (3) permanent patient harm, (4) intervention required to sustain life, or (5) death.
It was to be feared that she would become a stetiger Krankher (permanent patient) in the institution and it was well known, they cleverly reminded the money-conscious hospital administrators (quoting the house rules), that they were not allowed to admit anyone whose recovery they had judged impossible.
*National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention Classification of adverse events: E: Temporary harm to the patient and required intervention; F: Temporary harm to the patient and required initial or prolonged hospitalization; G: Permanent patient harm; H: Intervention required to sustain life; I: Patient death.
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