International recommendations for national patient safety incident reporting systems: An expert Delphi consensus-building process

BMJ Quality and Safety

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 150-163

  Howell, Ann Marie ^a   Burns, Elaine M ^a   Hull, Louise ^a   Mayer, Erik ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a,b   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health policy; Incident reporting; Patient safety; Safety culture; Significant event analysis, critical incident review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DELPHI STUDY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; CONSENSUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CONSENSUS; DATA COLLECTION; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SAFETY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85011564416     PISSN: 20445415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004456     Document Type: Article

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