Chiropractic Patient Incident Reporting and Learning System


What Are Patient Safety Incidents?

CPiRLS – The Chiropractic Patient Incident Reporting and Learning System – is an online reporting and learning forum that enables chiropractors to share and comment on patient safety incidents.

An “incident” is defined as any type of patient safety event, error, accident or deviation from the norm that either:

    actually happened – represented by CPiRLS as a red traffic light, or 
    nearly happened (‘near miss’) – represented by CPiRLS as an amber traffic light, or
    has the potential to happen – represented by CPiRLS as a green traffic light,

regardless of whether it is considered minor or major, results in significant patient harm or leads to a patient complaint.

A trigger list has been designed to help you participate in CPiRLS by providing examples of incidents that you might come across and should report. Some may be fairly common and some extremely rare; the list is not exhaustive. The list provides categories/sub-categories of incident that match those provided in the electronic reporting form. The trigger list has been mailed to chiropractors and is available to view on this website when a report is being prepared.