OBJECTIVE Patient safety may be enhanced by using reports from front-line staff of near misses and unsafe conditions to identify latent safety events. We describe paediatric emergency department (ED) near-miss events and unsafe conditions from hospital reporting systems in a 1-year observational study from hospitals participating in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)...

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Underreporting is a major issue when using incident reporting systems to improve safety in hospitals. Based on a psychological framework, this study investigated the motivational antecedents of the willingness to report into incident reporting systems in healthcare. Individual, organisational and system-related influences on the willingness to report incidents were investi...

background: fatalism, an obstacle to the adoption of safe behaviors, describes the belief that injuries are unavoidable and occur due to haphazard or fate. the present study examined degree of fatalism related to injuries reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. methods: a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 250 workers. the survey included demographic ...

background: patient safety within healthcare systems is a central aspect of health policy in most developed countries. from april 2007 to may 2009, the pilot project expir-ro tested a voluntary incident reporting system in a public hospital in bucharest romania, in collaboration with two italian hospitals (in genoa and milan). methods: data were collected anonymously through a form based on the...

BACKGROUND Hospital incident reporting systems are usually evaluated on their theoretical benefit to the hospital or increase in reporting rates alone. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a workflow-based response system on staff incident reporting rates. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A prospective cohort study of incident reports made by staff members before (2006-2007) and after (2008-2009) the syst...