BACKGROUND Structured reporting of major incidents has been advocated to improve the care provided at future incidents. A systematic review identified ten existing templates for reporting major incident medical management, but these templates are not in widespread use. We aimed to address this challenge by designing an open access template for uniform reporting of data from pre-hospital major i...

This study was designed to understand the “landscape” of hospital incident reporting systems and to examine the use of health information technology to improve reporting, data analysis, and learning from errors in health care. To date, no systematic estimates exist of the characteristics of reporting systems operated by U.S. hospitals or of how these systems are being used. More research is nee...

Incident reporting is a central strategy for improving safety in the NHS (UK National Health Service). In this paper we discuss incident reporting in anaesthesia. We discuss four schemes for reporting: longstanding, departmental based schemes; newer, hospital wide schemes; a national scheme; and an inter-departmental scheme (developed by the authors). We also discuss an example report. We argue...

OBJECTIVES (i) To examine attitudes of medical and nursing staff towards reporting incidents (adverse events and near-misses), and (ii) to identify measures to facilitate incident reporting. DESIGN Qualitative study. In March 2002, semistructured questions were administered to five focus groups--one each for consultants, registrars, resident medical officers, senior nurses, and junior nurses....

Incident reporting systems are often seen by the general public and governments as an absolute necessity to ensure safety. However, there is more to incident reporting systems than what one would surmise from the name. While these systems are designed to record incidents, aiming to ultimately inform the system to not make the same or similar mistake again, there is a lot behind the scenes. A ve...

BACKGROUND Preventable medical harm is a leading cause of death in the United States. Incident reporting systems have been identified as the primary method to capture medical error and harm. Incidents are rarely reported, particularly among physician trainees. METHODS We conducted a single-center, quasi-experimental study to examine the effect of education on the importance of and how to file...