The National System for Incident Reporting (NSIR), launched by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) in 2010, is a voluntary, web-based reporting system that collects medication incident data from acute and long-term care facilities. It supports sharing and learning from medication incidents to reduce the risk of future incidents. NSIR data and analyses can be used at the local, regional, provincial and national levels to inform quality improvement activities and foster improvements in health care delivery.
In 2013, CIHI began collaborating with the Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) on a new module to collect radiation treatment incidents: the National System for Incident Reporting — Radiation Treatment (NSIR-RT). The initial work focused on developing the minimum data set (MDS) and draft module for data collection. NSIR-RT was pilot-tested by 28 cancer treatment centres in 6 jurisdictions from September 2015 to December 2016. A comprehensive evaluation of NSIR-RT including the pilot project was conducted in March 2017. The evaluation led to key improvements to the MDS and system, many of which were implemented prior to the launch of NSIR-RT in July 2017. This document provides a summary of the evaluation. The full report is available by writing to nsir@cihi.ca.
