Sentinel Event Statistics 1995–2016.

The Joint Commission.

This website provides sentinel event data reported to The Joint Commission, which includes information on 439 sentinel events reported in 2016. Unintended retained foreign bodies andfalls 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 close of the second quarter of 2016.

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