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- Published on: 17 September 2015
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- Published on: 17 September 2015Making sense of the story - the true value of incident reportingShow More
I was interested to read the thoughtful article by Imogen Mitchell and colleagues, echoing longstanding criticisms by Kaveh Shojania, Charles Vincent and others on the low value of high volume incident reporting. There is little learning from categorical data, repeated many times, around falls or minor medication errors. However, there was a time at the National Patient Safety Agency, where we experimented with a multi...
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None declared. - Published on: 16 September 2015Incident Reporting - Let's DecentraliseShow More
The Editor, BMJ Quality and Safety,
Mitchell, Schuster, Smith et al (1) present the results of semi-structured interviews with 11 international patient safety experts, 15 years after publication of the US Institute of Medicine's landmark report 'To Err Is Human'.(2) One of the Institute's recommendations was the introduction of healthcare incident reporting.
Qualitative analysis of the interviews by Mitchel...
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