Drug Incidents
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of residents who have a drug incident in seven days. Defined as: medicine(s) not given, wrong dosage given; medicine(s) given at the wrong time; wrong method of administration; wrong medication(s) given.
Numerator
Number of residents affected in the past seven days by a medicine incident.
Denominator
Number of residents observed in those seven days.
Exclusions
If the resident manages his own medication or this is done entirely by the family.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Data collected every 6 months and submitted online to a government portal for QI calculation.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Publicly reported online annually at individual facility level (zorgkwaliteit.be/woonzorgcentra), overall Belgium population, province and size of facility. Trends over time (2018-2022) (zorgkwaliteit.be/sites/default/files/imports/Publieksrapport2022_Appendix.pdf).