Abstract
Objective: To determine the prevalence of reported incidents in the hospital setting of a public maternity hospital. Methods: This was a descriptive-exploratory, retrospective documentary analysis research with a quantitative approach, carried out with 166 reports of reported incidents from a public maternity hospital, located in Caxias-MA. Results: It was found that most of the incidents were errors related to patient identification (22.3%), and no safety incident was associated with mortality. Mothers were the most prevalent group of incident cases (66.9%), and the phase with the highest occurrence of these events was during the hospitalization period (75.3%). The highest prevalence of reported cases was from March 2018 to February 2019 (68.1%). Conclusion: The results reinforce the need for strategies, such as permanent education of the Equipe de Saúde, training based on protocols and procedural guidelines to minimize their indexes and stimulate or continuous monitoring and correct preenchimento das chips. A hospital gesture must show support for your six professionals, demystifying that these incidents are not a subproduto inevitável da assistência à saúde, more passiveis de prevenção, through a collaborative culture, sem punição e a valorização dos profissionais que so notifies.