Motivational antecedents of incident reporting: Evidence from a survey of nurses and physicians

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Yvonne ^a   Briner, Matthias ^b,c   Wehner, Theo ^a   Manser, Tanja ^d  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c LUCERNE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Incident reporting systems in healthcare; Motivation to report incidents; Patient safety; Underreporting; Willingness to report

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; MEDICAL ERROR; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SWITZERLAND; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROLE PLAYING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MOTIVATION; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK MANAGEMENT; ROLE;

EID: 84887965313     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13881     Document Type: Article

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