OBJECTIVES To determine the extent and nature of prescription monitoring incidents by hospital pharmacists and to derive a performance indicator to allow prescription monitoring to be compared among hospitals in North West Thames region. DESIGN Survey of all self recorded prescription monitoring incidents for one week in June 1990. SETTING All (31) acute hospitals in the region with pharmac...

IMPORTANCE Improving patient safety is at the forefront of policy and practice. While considerable progress has been made in understanding the frequency, causes and consequences of error in hospitals, less is known about the safety of primary care. OBJECTIVE We investigated how often patient safety incidents occur in primary care and how often these were associated with patient harm. EVIDEN...

Avian pox is a viral disease with a wide host range. In Great Britain, avian pox in birds of the Paridae family was first diagnosed in a great tit (Parus major) from south-east England in 2006. An increasing number of avian pox incidents in Paridae have been reported each year since, indicative of an emergent infection. Here, we utilise a database of opportunistic reports of garden bird mortali...

In this article, we investigate the attributes of victims in information security incidents for the purpose of reducing the damages. Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) conducted the Internet (Web-based) survey titled “Survey of awareness toward information security incidents” whose targets are the Japanese Internet users at October 2010. By using micro data collected from the survey,...

Introduction The complexity of the care provided for critically ill patients frequently leads to medical errors with potential harm. To improve standards of care, each incident should be recorded, reported and discussed within the team. The reporting system highlights where errors were made and what lessons can be learnt from such incidents. These are commonly reported as “critical incidents” o...

In this paper, we analyze several cyber-security incidents involving critical infrastructure and SCADA systems. We classify these incidents based on Source Sector, Method of Operations, Impact, and Target Sector. Using this standardized taxonomy we can easily compare and contrast current and future SCADA incidents.

There are several types of security systems, which focus on detecting, mitigating and responding to incidents. Current response systems are largely based on manual incident response selection strategies, which can introduce delays between detection and response time. However, it would be beneficial if critical and urgent incidents are addressed as soon as possible before they jeopardised critic...

We developed a laboratory incident report classification system that can guide reduction of actual and potential adverse events. The system was applied retrospectively to 129 incident reports occurring during a 16-month period. Incidents were classified by type of adverse event (actual or potential), specific and potential patient impact, nature of laboratory involvement, testing phase, and pre...