Analysis of critical incident reports using natural language processing.
Natural language processing (NLP) has been used to categorize patient safety reports and reduce the burden of manual review within hospitals or hospital networks. This study uses NLP to analyze more than 10,000 reports submitted to the Swiss National CIRRNET database from 2006 to 2023. Most incidents were medication-related, followed by patient falls, and incidents related to venous thromboembolism.