Nature of blame in patient safety incident reports: mixed methods analysis of a national database

J Cooper, A Edwards, H Williams… - The Annals of Family …, 2017 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE A culture of blame and fear of retribution are recognized barriers to reporting
patient safety incidents. The extent of blame attribution in safety incident reports, which may …

Getting the whole story: integrating patient complaints and staff reports of unsafe care

J Van Dael, A Gillespie, T Reader… - Journal of Health …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective It is increasingly recognized that patient safety requires heterogeneous insights
from a range of stakeholders, yet incident reporting systems in health care still primarily rely …

Comparing the attitudes and knowledge toward incident reporting in junior physicians and nurses in a district general hospital

J Bagenal, K Sahnan, S Shantikumar - Journal of patient safety, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives The practice of open reporting and instituting a blame-free culture improves a
system's ability to deal with risky processes, and the attitude of staff toward safety processes …

[HTML][HTML] An international perspective on definitions and terminology used to describe serious reportable patient safety incidents: a systematic review

J Hegarty, SJ Flaherty, MM Saab, J Goodwin… - Journal of patient …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Objectives Patients are unintentionally, yet frequently, harmed in situations that are deemed
preventable. Incident reporting systems help prevent harm, yet there is considerable …

Integrating incident data from five reporting systems to assess patient safety: making sense of the elephant

O Levtzion-Korach, A Frankel, H Alcalai… - The Joint Commission …, 2010 - Elsevier
Article-at-a-Glance Background A study was conducted to examine and compare
information gleaned from five different reporting systems within one institution: incident …

Contributing factors identified by hospital incident report narratives

TK Nuckols, DS Bell, SM Paddock… - BMJ Quality & …, 2008 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Context: A major purpose of incident reporting is to understand contributing factors so that
causes of errors can be uncovered and systems made safer. For established reporting …

Incident reports—their purpose and scope

D Dunn - AORN journal, 2003 - Elsevier
ACCIDENTS IN THE health care setting may be inevitable, but their frequency can be
decreased with a dedicated focus on patient safety.• RISK REDUCTION naturally flows from …

[HTML][HTML] Can patient safety incident reports be used to compare hospital safety? Results from a quantitative analysis of the English national reporting and learning …

AM Howell, EM Burns, G Bouras, LJ Donaldson… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) collects reports about
patient safety incidents in England. Government regulators use NRLS data to assess the …

Physician perception of hospital safety and barriers to incident reporting

JM Schectman, ML Plews-Ogan - The Joint Commission Journal on Quality …, 2006 - Elsevier
Article-at-a-Glance Background Despite increased attention to patient safety in recent years,
physician involvement in hospital safety activities appears to have remained limited …

Development of a theoretical framework of factors affecting patient safety incident reporting: a theoretical review of the literature

S Archer, L Hull, T Soukup, E Mayer, T Athanasiou… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The development and implementation of incident reporting systems within
healthcare continues to be a fundamental strategy to reduce preventable patient harm and …