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Clinical care & patient safety
Medication, falls, infection control, premature discharge, equipment, training, and records failures in healthcare settings.
0
Unique reports (across pillar)
How these numbers are counted
Themes and categories
- Theme links
- Assignments of reports to themes. A report can have several themes, so the number of links can exceed the number of reports. Tags include automated analysis and editorial changes, rather than new findings by a coroner.
- Pillars and theme pages
- A pillar groups related themes. Pillar cards count distinct reports across their themes, rather than adding the child counts. A theme page's main number counts the distinct reports in its displayed list. A report can appear under more than one pillar.
- Category charts
- Each category counts reports assigned to it. Reports can appear in several categories, so category bars should not be added to obtain a total of unique reports. Organisation profile charts use the categories recorded on their listed reports.
Figures reflect records currently held in InquestIQ and may change as sources are added or corrected. Read the full counting guide.
Themes under Clinical care & patient safety
Record-keeping failures
Deaths linked to inadequate clinical or safety records
Training deficiencies
Deaths where staff lacked adequate training
Falls prevention
Deaths from falls, particularly in healthcare and care settings
Medication errors
Prescribing, dispensing, or administration errors involving medicines
Premature discharge
Patients discharged too early or without adequate follow-up
Equipment failures
Deaths involving faulty or unavailable medical/safety equipment
Infection control
Deaths related to healthcare-acquired infections
PFD reports
0 reports, deduplicated across the 7 themes in this pillar
No reports tagged with this theme yet.