Incident reporting in primary care: epidemiology or culture change?

Incident reporting in primary care: epidemiology or culture change?

As in most other areas of human experience, fashions in healthcare and in healthcare research come and go. They come about because a good idea is articulated, often as a sound bite that makes intrinsic sense, and they go because a few intrepid researchers are prepared to investigate the substance behind the sound bite and they come to realise that the logic is not supported by the reality. The ...

Patient safety incidents are common in primary care: A national prospective active incident reporting survey

BACKGROUND The study objectives were to describe the incidence and the nature of patient safety incidents (PSIs) in primary care general practice settings, and to explore the association between these incidents and practice or organizational characteristics. METHODS GPs, randomly selected from a national influenza surveillance network (n = 800) across France, prospectively reported any incide...

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...

Specialty-based, voluntary incident reporting in neonatal intensive care: description of 4846 incident reports.

OBJECTIVES To examine the characteristics of incidents reported after introduction of a voluntary, non-punitive incident reporting system for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the Netherlands; and to investigate which types of reported incident pose the highest risk to patients in the NICU. DESIGN Prospective multicentre survey. METHODS Voluntary, non-punitive incident reporting was ...

Incident reporting: science or protoscience? Ten years later.