AGENCY: Box Elder County (Utah). Pioneer Care Center

SERIES: 5349
TITLE: Incident reports
DATES: 1994.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological, thereunder alphabetical by type of incident

DESCRIPTION: These are reports of all patient incidents occurring at the Pioneer Care Center (medications, slips, falls, etc.). They are used to create reports for state regulatory agencies and for investigative purposes. Each incident is investigated by the center's Safety Committee to determine cause and to correct any existing problems. They include the incident report log (number, patient, name, date of incident, date received by safety committee) and the incident report (patient's name, name of patient's physicians, cause for hospitalization, condition before incident, employee visitor, or other; statement and description of incident by person involved; name and addresses of witnesses; description of incident; was person involved seen by a physician, date and time, statement and signature of examining physician, indication of whether x-rays were taken, date and signature of Safety Committee reviewing case).

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 12/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 5 years or until resolution of all litigation and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Legal

This disposition is based on the administrative needs expressed by the center and the statute of limitations for malpractice actions. "No malpractice action against a health care provider may be brought unless it is commenced within two years after the plaintiff or patient discovers, or through the case of reasonable diligence should have discovered the injury, whichever first occurs, but not to exceed four years after the date of the alleged act, omission, neglect or occurrence" [Utah Code Annotated (UCA) 78-14-4.4 (1990)].