•Required Reports to the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) •Code 15 Reports •Annual Reports •Department of Health Reports (physician practices)
•Reportable incidents are events where the health care personal could exercise control and is associated in whole or part with medical intervention, rather than the condition for which such intervention occurred and results in one of the following which are reportable to AHCA within 15 days… •Death of a patient; •Brain or spinal damage to a patient; •Performance of surgical procedure on wrong patient; •Performance of wrong-site surgical procedure; •Performance of wrong surgical procedure; •Performance of a surgical procedure that is medically unnecessary or unrelated to the patient’s medical condition; •Performance of procedures to remove unplanned foreign objects remaining from a surgical procedure. •Surgical repair of damage resulting to a patient from a planned surgical procedure, where the damage is not a recognized specific risk, as disclosed to the patient. |