Table 1

 Awareness and use of the incident reporting system

Doctors (%)Nurses (%)p value*Relative risk95% CI
YesNYesN
*Log binomial generalised linear models adjusting for clustering by hospital.
Awareness of hospital incident reporting system93.6%17499.8%5860.1951.010.99 to 1.03
Ever completed an incident report64.6%11589.2%520<0.0011.381.19 to 1.61
Know how to locate/access an incident form43.0%7788.3%515<0.0012.051.61 to 2.63
Know what to do with a completed incident form49.7%8981.9%476<0.0011.651.27 to 2.13