Clinical handover incident reporting in one UK general hospital.

Patient-Safety-Related Hospital Deaths in England: Thematic Analysis of Incidents Reported to a National Database, 2010–2012

BACKGROUND Hospital mortality is increasingly being regarded as a key indicator of patient safety, yet methodologies for assessing mortality are frequently contested and seldom point directly to areas of risk and solutions. The aim of our study was to classify reports of deaths due to unsafe care into broad areas of systemic failure capable of being addressed by stronger policies, procedures, a...

Investigation of Incident Reporting System in Iranian Hospitals: A National Survey

Background and Aims: Incident reporting is a possible alternative for learning from errors. One of the barriers in this way is a deficit in, common standards for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. In this research accordance with Iranchr('39')s incident reporting system with minimal information Model for Patient Safety Incident Reporting Systems (MIMPS)of WHO were compared. Methods:...

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies

The use of Microsoft Excel as an electronic database for handover and coordination of patients with trauma in a District General Hospital

Bakti NI, et al. BMJ Innov 2017;0:1–7. doi:10.1136/bmjinnov-2016-000182 AbstrAct Communication between healthcare professionals is a key aspect in patient safety especially when dealing with patients with musculoskeletal trauma. The change of junior doctors’ working patterns within the last decade and a multidisciplinary approach has resulted in more healthcare professionals being involved in a...

Nursing Handover Written Guideline Implementation: A Way to Improve Safe Performance of Nurses in Intensive Care Units

Background: In the health centers, clinical data is regularly transferred between health care personnel. The most widespread of these handoffs are the inter-shift nursing reports, which occur several times in a day and could facilitate patient care plan, patient safety and continuity of care. But previous studies and clinical experience have indicated that there is no program for this major pur...