Skip to main content

Table 4 Format of stand-alone reports on incidents

From: Understanding corporate governance of healthcare quality: a comparative case study of eight Australian public hospitals

Format of incident reports

C1

C2

C3

C4

C5

C6

C7

C8

Summary briefing document with background, analysis of data, recommendation/summary of action

✓

   

✓

   

Provision of graphs

✓

  

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

Provision of indicator tables

✓

✓

  

✓

 

✓

✓

Provision of trended data from 6 to 36 months

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

Evidence of control limits on some graphs

 

✓

 

✓

✓

   

Provision of targets

   

✓

 

✓

 

✓

Provision of benchmarked data

        

Disaggregated data by site or programs

✓

✓

 

✓

  

✓

✓

Narrative analysis of data

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

   

Identification of actions

 

✓

 

✓