TY - JOUR T1 - Incident reporting: rare incidents may benefit from national problem solving JF - BMJ Quality & Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 517 LP - 517 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2016-006011 VL - 26 IS - 6 AU - Ann-Marie Howell AU - Elaine M Burns AU - Louise Hull AU - Erik Mayer AU - Nick Sevdalis AU - Ara Darzi Y1 - 2017/06/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/26/6/517.abstract N2 - We would like to congratulate the authors on the pragmatic nationwide approach that they have adopted in Denmark to address the key issues around incident reporting. Rabol and colleagues1 highlight again the challenges of collecting and meaningfully using such data.Though experts in Denmark have drawn many of the same conclusions reached in our Delphi exercise,2 it is interesting that our findings differed on the usefulness of incident reports to detect rare events. The Danish Society concluded that rare events are difficult to detect due to deficiencies in data mining and that efforts … ER -