… The Patient Safety Event Taxonomy developed and tested in … classifications represented
by single topic areas and settings and the heuristic, multidimensional/multisetting classifications …

… event or circumstance that could have resulted, or did result, in unnecessary harm to a patient
is called a patient safety incident… an incident, to prioritise investigation of high-risk events. …

… on patient safety in primary care, we identified 21 existing approaches to the classification
of harm … Given the broad range of events described in incident reports, the wide scope of the …

… , root causes, actions to be taken to prevent or mitigate future events, and outcomes that …
categorization method to classify patient safety reports into their appropriate patient safety topic. …

… harm to a patient’.5 In this study we focus on patient safety incidents involving problems with
… Descriptive analyses were undertaken for all events to examine the distribution of events by …

… aims to develop a classification for patient safety incident reporting … the classification by using
a data set of incidents during a 6-… reasons for increases in safety events, how members of a …

… We propose that the definition and categorization of safety related events influences key
organizational routines. Specifically, the classification of an event into one category or another …

… Application of the taxonomy to the TAPS data shows that the majority of reports contained
a single patient safety event, and the majority of events related to the processes of providing …

… took a more analytic approach to differentiate between patient safety incidents (adverse
events, near miss/close calls and medical error with minimal risk of harm) and service quality …

… of events leading to the clinical incident. Being able to examine the causal sequence of events
leading up to an clinical incident … of events that lead to the occurrence of an incident The …