BACKGROUND Epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases through the mandatory-reporting system is crucial in the planning and evaluation of disease control and prevention program. This study investigated the reporting behavior, knowledge, and attitude to reporting communicable disease in private doctors in Taiwan. The differences between the reporting and non-reporting doctors were also ...

detection of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals provides an important measure of the burden of drug related morbidity on the healthcare system. spontaneous reporting of adrs is scare and several obstacles to such reporting have been identified formerly. this study aimed to determine the role of clinical pharmacy residents in adr reporting within a hospital setting.clinical pharmacy resi...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the impact of television news coverage on total adverse event reporting rates 1 month before and after the bulletins during a medication health scare. We further investigated whether individual side effects mentioned in each bulletin were reflected in the adverse event reports following the coverage. DESIGN A retrospective pre-post observational study. SET...

Introduction A tag reporting rate is a critical parameter required for modelling tag recapture data and defines the probability that a tag is returned, given that a tagged fish was recaptured. The tag reporting rate directly scales the number of returned tags, and therefore directly affects the estimate of fishing mortality. In the absence of other information, knowing only total catch and the ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of strategies to promote reporting of errors on nurses' attitude to reporting errors, organizational culture related to patient safety, intention to report and reporting rate in hospital nurses. METHODS A nonequivalent control group non-synchronized design was used for this study. The program was developed and then administered to th...