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Introduction to the National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR)
Delivering health care services today is complex and often high risk.
Unfortunately, despite best efforts and vigilance, sometimes medication incidents do occur.
In the next few minutes, you will learn more about the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and its web-based reporting system: The National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR).
NSIR allows participating health care facilities to report and analyze medication incidents.
NSIR enables you to:
- Share your own experiences, as well as learn from the experiences of others
- Identify new, unsuspected hazards and risks
- Identify similarities in sources of risk
- Gain insight into underlying system failures, and
- Recommend good or exemplary practices
NSIR will help in the creation of prevention strategies that can reduce or eliminate future incidents and improve patient safety.
Who Is CIHI?
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit corporation that produces unbiased, credible and comparable health information to help decision makers improve the health of Canadians and their health care system.
CIHI data is maintained according to one of the strongest privacy and security programs in Canada, which includes a robust data quality component.
What Is the National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR)?
NSIR is a web-based medication incident reporting system developed by CIHI. It is designed to help health care professionals and administrators to report, track and analyze medication incidents occurring in Canadian health care facilities.
NSIR is designed to complement existing risk management systems. It offers a secure web-based user interface for data entry.
There is no cost to purchase or register for NSIR, and no annual licensing fees.
Reporting is confidential and protects the identity of patients, providers and facilities.
The system features a standardized list of more than 6,000 drug products categorized by brand name and generic name.
NSIR’s MicroStrategy™ query tool provides customized data reports, charts, and graphs within your facility (by ward/unit, for example) or across all facilities.
The system offers anonymous communication with other registered users, for shared learning.
How Does NSIR Work?
When a medication incident is discovered in a health care facility it is reported and reviewed internally.
The incident report is submitted to NSIR once internal investigations and follow up have been completed.
NSIR has 32 data elements for each medication incident, of which about a third are mandatory.
It takes about 2 to 5 minutes to enter a single incident, depending on the level of detail.
Within an hour after an incident is submitted to NSIR, the coded data becomes available for analysis.
CIHI has recently released specifications for the batch upload of medication incidents to NSIR from hospital risk management systems.
The batch upload functionality will allow multiple incident records to be submitted to NSIR with a few keystrokes.
NSIR enables the user to generate a variety of analytical reports, and communicate with other registered users.
CIHI offers ongoing education and support, which enables users to submit, analyze and use NSIR data.
Conclusion
CIHI’s National System for Incident Reporting enables you to:
- Standardize mediation incident reporting;
- Collect and analyze data; and,
- Develop and share targeted, timely information...
…helping to track and reduce harmful medication incidents in your facility, and across Canada.
For more information please email nsir@cihi.ca or visit www.cihi.ca/nsir.