What is a Near Miss?

Any potentially harmful event that could have had an adverse result; but, through chance or intervention, harm was prevented.

Florida’s Near Miss Reporting System:

Through a partnership with the University of Miami/JMH  Center for Patient Safety and Marsh-Stars, the Florida Patient Safety Corporation has created a Near Miss Reporting System where volunteer participants, including up to 20 hospitals, up to 2 birthing centers and up to 2 ambulatory surgical centers report near misses. Reporting is voluntary, anonymous and independent of mandatory reporting systems used for regulatory purposes.

The Near Miss Reporting System will track, assess and analyze the incoming reports, findings and corrective action plans; determine patterns of failure and successful methods to correct system problems; share findings with individual facilities, providing follow-up and feedback as needed; monitor national efforts and those in other states to ensure consistency and best practice in the Florida program and publish periodic Advisories. Special alerts will be published when newly identified, significant risks are identified.

Advisories

2008
June 2008 Patient Safety Advisory

March 2008 Patient Safety Advisory

 

2007
December 2007 Patient Safety Advisory

June 2007 Patient Safety Advisory
March 2007 Patient Safety Advisory

2006
December 2006 Patient Safety Advisory
Near Miss Reporting System