The reporting of risk events provided for in Article L. 1414-3-3 is intended to :
1° Enable healthcare institutions, doctors and medical teams to take any useful measure to prevent the occurrence of adverse events related to healthcare or to limit their effects ;
2° To provide the Haute Autorité de santé with the information necessary for the development or validation, in conjunction with the professionals and organisations concerned, of the quality of care or professional practice guidelines mentioned in 2° of Article L. 1414-3-3.
Medical risk events are considered to be undesirable events, the nature of which and the reporting and analysis procedures for which are specified by the College of the Haute Autorité de santé, with the exception of the serious undesirable events mentioned in article L. 1413-14.