Other types of reports can now be extracted from the PCA database, such as the age and gender of the patients involved in MIRs reported, or the locations where the incidents occurred. The ability to extract this type of data is important to the PCA Committee as it moves forward with efforts to identify and address quality and patient issues statewide. For example, recent database query shows that 280 Major Incident Reports list the operating room as the location where the incident occurred. Additional analysis of these statistics is needed, but it is a start towards a review of.
