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Incident reporting systems: a comparative study of two hospital divisions

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Title
Incident reporting systems: a comparative study of two hospital divisions
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Archives of Public Health, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13690-016-0146-8
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Tanya Hewitt, Samia Chreim, Alan Forster

Abstract

Previous studies of incident reporting in health care organizations have largely focused on single cases, and have usually attended to earlier stages of reporting. This is a comparative case study of two hospital divisions' use of an incident reporting system, and considers the different stages in the process and the factors that help shape the process. The data was comprised of 85 semi-structured interviews of health care practitioners in general internal medicine, obstetrics and neonatology; thematic analysis of the transcribed interviews was undertaken. Inductive and deductive themes are reported. This work is part of a larger qualitative study found elsewhere in the literature. The findings showed that there were major differences between the two divisions in terms of: a) what comprised a typical report (outcome based vs communication and near-miss based); b) how the reports were investigated (individual manager vs interdisciplinary team); c) learning from reporting (interventions having ambiguous linkages to the reporting system vs interventions having clear linkages to reported incidents); and d) feedback (limited feedback vs multiple feedback). The differences between the two divisions can be explained in terms of: a) the influence of litigation on practice, b) the availability or lack of interprofessional training, and c) the introduction of the reporting system (top-down vs bottom-up approach). A model based on the findings portraying the influences on incident reporting and learning is provided. Implications for practice are addressed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 95 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 29%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 6%
Researcher 5 5%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 32 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 25 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 16%
Social Sciences 9 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 3%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 32 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 August 2016.
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#16,580,596
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Archives of Public Health
#722
of 1,144 outputs
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#220,459
of 356,506 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Archives of Public Health
#6
of 13 outputs
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