AHRQ Patient Safety Network ► Sentinel Event Statistics 1995–2014.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network





Sentinel Event Statistics 1995–2014.

The Joint Commission.

This Web site provides sentinel event data reported to The Joint Commission, which includes information on 764 sentinel events reported in 2014. Unintended retained foreign objects were the most frequently submitted incidents in this time period. The data and graphs are updated quarterly and include specific analysis associated with event type by year and root causes by event type from 1995–2014.

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