Analysis of Incident Reports of a Dental University Hospital

Yasuyuki Kimura, Ken-ichi Tonami, Akira Toyofuku and Hiroshi Nitta
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Yasuyuki Kimura: Oral Diagnosis and General Dentistry, Dental Hospital, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan
Ken-ichi Tonami: Oral Diagnosis and General Dentistry, Dental Hospital, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan
Akira Toyofuku: Medical Safety Management Office, Dental Hospital, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan
Hiroshi Nitta: Oral Diagnosis and General Dentistry, Dental Hospital, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 16, 1-10

Abstract: Incident reports are important for improving the quality and safety of medical care. Healthcare workers with less than one year of work experience have been reported to cause the most incidents, and the most common incident is “drug-related”. However, few studies have comprehensively analyzed incidents in dentistry, and the characteristics of dental incidents have not been understood. In this study, to understand the characteristics of dental incidents, we comprehensively analyzed 1291 incident reports submitted to the Tokyo Medical and Dental University Dental Hospital from April 2014 to March 2019. As a result, dental outpatient and dental wards had different types of incidents. In outpatient wards, incidents included many dentistry-specific incidents related to “procedures”. Among them, “poor physical condition of the patient during dental treatment” was the most common incident. In contrast, the most common incident from subjects with less than one year of work experience was “damage to soft tissues around the teeth”. Thus, to improve the quality and safety in dentistry, it is was considered necessary to analyze and understand the characteristics of dentistry-specific incidents and to take appropriate measures and educate dental professionals.

Keywords: dentistry; medical safety; incident reporting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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