The anaesthetic incident reporting scheme in Leicester has been running for 11 years and
1000 incidents have now been reported. The scheme has successfully highlighted …

It is reasonable to store data sheets, comprising reports of anaesthetic incidents, in the
Department of Anaesthesia separate from the patient's medical record. It is convenient to …

A postal survey of anaesthetists practising in New Zealand assessed their practice and
attitudes to anaesthetic incident reporting. 136 replies were received (57% response rate) …

One of the key features of the patient safety 'movement'is the belief that safety can be
improved by learning from incidents and near misses, rather than pretending they have not …

Anaesthetists are proud of their reputation for safety and can point to initiatives in
engineering, training and practice guidelines to support it [1]. Many of these advances have …

The study had its beginning the previous year at a conference on'Monitoring in
Anaesthesia'when a group of concerned anaesthetists resolved to study'critical incidents' …

Voluntary, anonymous reporting of incidents which occur during anaesthesia is a
mechanism for obtaining information about such problems. Our objective was to estimate the …

The incident reporting database at the National Patient Safety Agency was interrogated on
the nature, frequency and severity of incidents related to anaesthesia. Of 12 606 reports over …

The rôle of an anaesthetic incident reporting programme in improving anaesthetic safety
was studied. The programme had been running for 4 to 5 years in three large hospitals in …

The Australian Patient Safety Foundation was formed in 1987; it was decided to set up and
co-ordinate the Australian Incident Monitoring Study as a function of this Foundation; 90 …