Sentinel Event Statistics 1995–2015.

The Joint Commission.

This Web site provides sentinel event data reported to The Joint Commission, which includes information on 731 sentinel events reported thus far in 2015. Wrong-patient, wrong-site, wrong-procedure events 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 through the third quarter of 2015.