Incident events may occur when nursing students are present in the clinical setting. Their inexperience and unfamiliarity with clinical practice put them at risk for making mistakes that could potentially harm patients and themselves. However, there are deficiencies with incident event reporting systems, including incomplete data and delayed reports. The purpose of this study was to develop an ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the psychometric validity and reliability of the incident reporting culture questionnaire (IRCQ; in Chinese) following an exploration of the reporting culture perceived by hospital nurses in Taiwan. DESIGN Scale development with psychometric examination and a cross-sectional study. SETTING Ten teaching hospitals. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1064 nurses participated with a...

BACKGROUND Incident reporting is widely used in both patient safety improvement programmes, and in research on patient safety. OBJECTIVE To identify the key requirements for incident reporting systems in primary care; to develop an Internet-based incident reporting and learning system for primary care. METHODS A literature review looking at the purpose, design and requirements of an inciden...

BACKGROUND The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) collects reports about patient safety incidents in England. Government regulators use NRLS data to assess the safety of hospitals. This study aims to examine whether annual hospital incident reporting rates can be used as a surrogate indicator of individual hospital safety. Secondly assesses which hospital characteristics are correlat...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the barriers to and factors facilitating the operation of patient safety incident reporting systems. METHODS A qualitative study that used a methodological triangulation method was conducted. Participants were those who were involved in or responsible for managing incident reporting at hospitals, and they were recruited via a snowballing sampling method....

BACKGROUND Centralised incident reporting in a Dutch collaboration of nine out-of-hours services yielded very few incident reports. To improve incident reporting and the awareness of primary caregivers about patient safety issues, a local incident-reporting procedure was implemented. AIM To compare the number and nature of incident reports collected in a local incident-reporting procedure (in...

Background: Voluntary hospital reporting systems are potentially valuable sources of information about medical errors and adverse events. This study examined the extent and variation in the reporting of medication errors and adverse drug events in a voluntary hospital incident reporting system. Methods: A retrospective analysis of received incident reports of potential and preventable adverse d...

BACKGROUND Incident reporting is the prevailing approach to gathering data on accidental falls in hospitals for both research and quality assurance purposes, though is of questionable quality as staff time pressures, perception of blame and other factors are thought to contribute to under-reporting. METHODS This research aimed to identify contextual factors influencing recording of in-hospita...