For purposes of reporting to the Department of Health, an adverse incident is an event over which a physician or other licensee could exercise control and which is associated in whole or in part with a medical intervention, rather than the condition for which such intervention occurred, and which results in the following patient injuries:

• The death of a patient
• Brain or spinal damage to a patient
• The performance of a surgical procedure on the wrong patient
• A procedure to remove unplanned foreign objects remaining from a surgical procedure
• The performance of a wrong-site surgical procedure; the performance of a wrong surgical procedure; or the surgical repair of damage to a patient resulting from a planned surgical procedure where the damage is not a recognized specific risk as disclosed to the patient and documented through the informed-consent process and if one of the listed procedures in this paragraph results in: death; brain or spinal damage; permanent disfigurement not to include the incision scar; fracture or dislocation of bones or joints; a limitation of neurological, physical or sensory function; or any condition that required transfer of the patient
• Any condition that required the transfer or a patient to a hospital licensed under section 395, F.S., from any facility or any office maintained by a physician for the practice of medicine that is not licensed under section 395, F.S.

See Rule 64B9-9.001(1)(a), F.A.C., for more information.