Source: All incidents categorised as slips, trips and falls in hospital locations reported to the NRLS between 1 September 2005 and 31 August 2006. Incidents reported as deaths have been reviewed to correct for miscoding of severity, or location: 16 incidents have been excluded which were fatal collapses, not falls, eight incidents were miscoding where reports clearly indicate the patient survived, and in three cases the fatal fall occurred outside hospital care.