Incident reporting in one UK accident and emergency department

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-37

  Tighe, Catherine M ^a   Woloshynowych, Maria ^a   Brown, Ruth ^a   Wears, Bob ^b   Vincent, Charles ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accident and emergency; Clinical incidents; Clinical risk management; Patient safety; Reporting system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LONDON; MANAGEMENT AUDIT; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING AUDIT; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 30444459783     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaen.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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