Out-of-hospital patient transportation (retrieval) of critically ill patients occurs within highly complex environments. Adverse events are not uncommon. Incident monitoring provides a means to better understand such events. The aim of this study was to characterize incidents occurring during retrieval to provide a basis for developing corrective strategies. Four organizations contributed 125 r...

BACKGROUND Increasing evidence suggests that patient safety is a serious concern for older patients with long-term conditions. Despite this, there is a lack of research on safety incidents encountered by this patient group. In this study, we sought to examine patient reports of safety incidents and factors associated with reports of safety incidents in older patients with long-term conditions. ...

BACKGROUND Most patients receive healthcare in primary care settings, but relatively little is known about patient safety. Out-of-hours contacts are of particular importance to patient safety. Our aim was to examine the incidence, types, causes, and consequences of patient safety incidents at general practice cooperatives for out-of-hours primary care and to examine which factors were associate...

OBJECTIVES To identify common risk types occurring in emergency departments (EDs). To compare the risks occurring between different emergency departments. DESIGN Application of a typology of risks to a database of critical incidents. Comparison of results of applying typology to group of critical incidents collected in a uniform manner in four different EDs. SETTING EDs in two teaching hosp...

The Division were experiencing a high number of serious incidents, and the Team felt that a good safety strategy would improve the quality of care given. Through multidisciplinary engagement they wanted to learn from these, encourage reporting and focus on a fair blame culture. The ultimate aim was to increase incident reporting, decrease serious incidents and improve quality. The key aim of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and characteristics of clinical handover incidents that occurred across a medium-size UK hospital. DESIGN A retrospective review of 36 consecutive months of data from the hospital electronic database of critical incidents was conducted. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of incidents reported, characterization of handover incidents according to clinical setti...

OBJECTIVES To compare personal and situational influences on incidents involving drink driving with those involving sober driving. METHODS Information on a range of road safety practices was sought in face to face interviews conducted with 969 members of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study cohort at age 26 years. A total of 750 study members reported an incident that in...

Beijing, as the capital of the world's most populous nation, has been at the forefront in food safety management in mainland China. Yet, food safety incidents have frequently occurred. To gain insights into the nature of food safety incidents occurred in Beijing, content analysis was carried out on an Internet database of food safety incidents, the “Throwing out the window net”, which has colle...

17 criteria for suicide-by-cop incidents were applied to 39 such incidents and 18 control incidents. Analysis indicated the criteria differentiated the two groups and may be useful for investigators.