Using knowledge discovery through data mining to gain intelligence from routinely collected incident reporting in an acute English hospital (February 2020)

Summary

Incident reporting systems are commonly deployed in healthcare but resulting datasets are largely warehoused. This study, published in the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, explores if intelligence from such datasets could be used to improve quality, efficiency, and safety.

Results indicate that healthcare incident reporting data is underused and, with a small amount of analysis, can provide real insight and application to patient safety.