Incident report data | At baseline | At 12 months | Group comparison at 12 months | ||||
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Intervention (n=28) | Control (n=32) | Intervention (n=28) | Control (n=32) | CP | 95% CI | p Value | |
Number of reports of patient safety incidents per practice | 0.36 (1.52) | 0.44 (1.05) | 4.68 (4.94) | 2.91 (5.29) | 0.65 | (0.50 to 0.79) | 0.045 |
Quality score for incident reports* | 0.34 (1.22) | 0.35 (0.88) | 2.19 (1.94) | 1.40 (1.66) | 0.65 | (0.51 to 0.79) | 0.038 |
Overall assessment of error management† | 0.14 (0.45) | 0.23 (0.53) | 0.99 (0.76) | 0.70 (0.86) | 0.60 | (0.46 to 0.75) | 0.148 |
Mean and SD are presented for all incident report data.
*Maximum quality score for reports is 5.
†Maximum score on overall assessment is 4.
Quality of patient safety incident reports was assessed by adapting an assessment method from Significant Event Analysis in general practice20 (see online supplementary appendix 2).