1(1)The following definitions apply in this Act.
“Advisory Committee” means the New Brunswick Quality of Care and Patient Safety Advisory Committee established under section
2.1.
(comité consultatif)
“critical event” means a patient safety incident that creates an ongoing safety risk to patients and that
(événement critique)
(a)
was serious, including an incident
(i)
resulting in a symptomatic outcome,
(ii)
requiring that the patient receive a major medical or surgical intervention or life-saving intervention,
(iii)
shortening the patient’s life expectancy, or
(iv)
causing the patient major, long-term or permanent harm or loss of function,
(b)
is considered to have contributed to or resulted in a patient’s death, or
(c)
in the case of a regional health authority, contributed to or resulted in serious harm to the patient and is, according to the Minister, a never event in hospital care in Canada.
“harm” means an adverse outcome to a patient
(préjudice)
(a)
identified by clinical observation, assessment or a report by the patient or the patient’s family, and
(b)
that resulted in, or could have resulted in, the patient requiring health products, services, treatments, interventions or restorative actions.
“health care organization” means
(organisme de soins de santé)
(a)
a regional health authority,
(c)
any other organization prescribed by regulation.
“incident report” means a record that sets out the facts of a patient safety incident. (rapport d’incident)
“Minister” means the Minister of Health and includes any person designated by the Minister to act on the Minister’s behalf.(ministre)
“multiple-patient event” means a patient safety incident involving one or more related events that
(événement affectant plusieurs patients)
(a)
contributes to, or results in, harm to or the death of multiple patients, or
(b)
could have contributed to, or resulted in, harm to or the death of multiple patients, and the health care organization determines that there is an ongoing safety risk to the patients involved.
“patient safety incident” means an unintended event that
(incident lié à la sécurité d’un patient)
(a)
occurs when health services are received by a patient or occurs on the property of a health care organization, and
(b)
contributes to or results in, or could have contributed to or resulted in, harm to the patient or the death of the patient.
“quality improvement activity” means an activity to assess, investigate, evaluate or improve the quality and safety of health services.(activité d’amélioration de la qualité)
“quality improvement plan” means a quality and safety of health services plan that is developed through an evidence-based process with an emphasis on accountability, transparency and collaboration and that sets out quality improvement activities.(plan d’amélioration de la qualité)
“quality improvement report” means a report that sets out the progress and results of quality improvement activities implemented in the previous year as part of the quality improvement plan.(rapport d’amélioration de la qualité)
“quality review” means a process that is conducted to examine the factors that contributed to a patient safety incident or other incident referred to in subsection
3(4).
(examen de la qualité)
“quality review report” means a report that is prepared after a quality review that sets out the facts of the patient safety incident or other incident referred to in subsection
3(4) and recommendations to improve the quality and safety of health services but does not contain personal information or personal health information.
(rapport d’examen de la qualité)