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Increase Event Reporting Toolkit

Event reporting plays a critical role in identifying, understanding, and addressing the underlying factors that contribute to medical errors. By voluntarily reporting incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions, healthcare teams can uncover fractured processes that may otherwise remain hidden. These insights are essential for improving patient safety and care outcomes.

However, many events never get reported. Overcoming the barriers to event reporting is key to building and sustaining a healthy reporting culture. Ensuring staff feel empowered to report issues without fear is the first step toward gaining maximum visibility into the opportunities for improvement within your organization.

ADN has developed a comprehensive Increase Event Reporting Toolkit to help your facility break down these barriers and increase event reporting. With this toolkit, you can build a more transparent and responsive safety culture that addresses both the visible and hidden risks in your healthcare setting.

Toolkit Includes

Guides & Checklists

Increase Event Reporting Checklist
Intensive Reporting Days Checklist
eBook: A Guide to Improving Your Patient Safety Event Reporting Culture (Includes Leadership Action List)

Tools & Templates

Patient Safety Event Reporting Rate Calculator
Communication Templates for Senior Leaders
Intensive Reporting Days Communication Templates
Gap Analysis Template for a Patient Safety Event Reporting System
Mini Patient Safety Culture "Pulse Check" Survey with Automated Analytics Report Toolkit
Culture of Safety Organizational Self-Assessment Survey with Automated Analytics Report Toolkit
Email Signature Banner to Promote Event Reporting

Posters & Tipsheets

Event Reporting Examples Tipsheet (Acute and Clinic versions)
Barriers to Reporting Poster
Anatomy of an Incident Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
Anatomy of a Near Miss Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
Anatomy of an Unsafe Condition Poster (Acute and Clinic versions)
Near Misses: Engaging and Empowering Frontline Staff Poster
Event Reporting Category Weather Forecast Poster
Event Reporting Contest Poster
General Event Reporting Promotional Posters (8.5x11 and 11x17)

For more guidance on improving your event reporting process, explore our Patient Safety Event Reporting Guide for actionable steps and insights.

Ready to enhance your facility’s event reporting culture? Download our Increase Event Reporting Toolkit and equip your team with the tools they need to bring critical issues to light and improve patient outcomes.

About American Data Network

Since 1994, we’ve made it our mission to be the company you can trust to understand your healthcare quality and patient safety needs and to develop customized solutions and services to meet them. We serve healthcare providers across multiple care settings, including hospitals from all across the country, ranging in size from 10 beds to 800. Our suite of services and data applications, which are consistently updated to meet ever-changing guidelines, includes: a Core Measures & Registries Data Abstraction Service, a Core Measures Application, a Patient Safety Event Reporting Application, a Clinical Benchmarking System, and Performance Reporting System.