Abstract: Incident reports refer to any unplanned events resulting in or with potential for injury, damage or other loss. Many countries have experienced incidents and adverse events that have highlighted failures in their health care systems and various international studies have highlighted the burden of accidents caused by adverse events within the health and social care settings which significantly impacted patients, families and health care system. This review will focus on clarifying the perception of nurses to incidents as a member of the health care workers and their documentation of those incidents by types and causes at Jordanian accredited private hospitals.
Keywords: Incident reports , incident documentation, incident types and causes.
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