Voluntary Medical Incident Reporting Tool to Improve Physician Reporting of Medical Errors in an Emergency Department

Voluntary Medical Incident Reporting Tool to Improve Physician Reporting of Medical Errors in an Emergency Department

INTRODUCTION Medical errors are frequently under-reported, yet their appropriate analysis, coupled with remediation, is essential for continuous quality improvement. The emergency department (ED) is recognized as a complex and chaotic environment prone to errors. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a web-based ED-specific incident reporting system using an iterative proc...

More on reporting medical errors.

To the Editor: Crone et al. (1 ) present a case study with much of their discussion about aspects of reporting suspected medical errors, particularly when there is a possibility of misconduct or violation of rules. Marx (2 ), who described a useful taxonomy of medical errors, recommends that no blame be given except for certain situations, one of which can be summarized as “failure to report sa...

Assessing barriers to medical errors reporting the view point of nurses in selected hospitals of Ahvaz

Background and Objective: Learning from errors through error reporting leads to changes in hospital processes and improved health outcomes. Therefore, this study examines assessing barriers to medical errors reporting the view point of nurses in selected hospitals of Ahvaz. Materials and Methods: The current study is descriptive analysis research. The statistical population included all the nu...

UNIVERSITY OF OSLO HEALTH ECONOMICS RESEARCH PROGRAMME Medical errors : Mandatory reporting , voluntary reporting , or both ?

ASHP statement on reporting medical errors.

The incidence of death and serious harm caused by mistakes and accidents in health care is unacceptable. This serious public health problem merits top-priority national attention. Addressing this issue will require major reforms and sizable investment of resources throughout the health care system, including the medication use process, which is a particular focus of the American Society of Heal...