Alcohol Detection to Lock Engine and Incident Reporting

Learning through incident reporting: time to consider a national incident reporting system.

In 1999 the United States’ Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report entitled ‘To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System’ which estimated that between 44,000 and 98,000 patients die each year in US hospitals as a result of preventable medical errors. According to the report, deaths from preventable medical errors are more common than deaths due to car crashes, AIDS and breast canc...

Critical incident reporting and learning.

Editor—We were interested to read the article of Professor Mahajan and concur with his view that safety can be improved by learning from incidents and near misses. 1 Furthermore , we agree that investigation of incidents should not underestimate the potential of analysing incidents that are near misses or which have not led to patient harm. 1 We also accept that under-reporting of incidents by ...

Incident reporting in anaesthesiology.

Incident reporting can be a powerful tool to detect weaknesses in the complex system of anaesthesiology. Having its roots in aviation, incident reporting today is used in a variety of medical disciplines at the local and even on the national level. Strength of incident reporting is the potential for learning from rare and potentially dangerous events. To properly set up an incident reporting sy...

Chapter 4. Incident Reporting

Attitudes and barriers to incident reporting: a collaborative hospital study.

OBJECTIVES To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Anonymous survey of 186 doctors and 587 nurses from diverse clinical settings in six South Australian hospitals (response rate = 70.7% and 73.6%, respectively). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Knowledge and use of the ...