Can incident reporting improve safety? Healthcare practitioners' views of the effectiveness of incident reporting

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-150

  Anderson, Janet E ^a   Kodate, Naonori ^b   Walters, Rhiannon ^c   Dodds, Anneliese ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Public Health Primary Care and Food Policy Department   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Incident reporting and analysis; Medical error; Quality culture; Risk management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; MEDICAL STAFF; MEDICATION ERROR; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LONDON; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875776679     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzs081     Document Type: Article

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