Objectives: To investigate the incidence of critical incidents in UK emergency departments
(EDs) and to compare the root causes of such incidents between different EDs. Methods: An …

Background Medical errors frequently contribute to morbidity and mortality. Prehospital
emergency medicine is prone to incidents that can lead to immediate deadly consequences …

Objectives To describe and evaluate the critical incident methodology as a quality
improvement tool in the emergency department. Method An audit of Emergency Department …

Objectives: To identify common risk types occurring in emergency departments (EDs). To
compare the risks occurring between different emergency departments. Design: Application …

Background The aim of this study was to examine reported incidents affecting Emergency
Department (ED) episodes of care. Methods A retrospective audit of ED patients was carried …

Background Several studies on patient safety have shown that a substantial number of
patients suffer from unintended harm caused by healthcare management in hospitals …

Objective Incident reporting systems are critical to understanding adverse events, in order to
create preventative and corrective strategies. There are very few systems dedicated to …

The specialty‐based study of incidents, adverse events, and errors in medicine has largely
occurred in anesthesia and to a lesser extent in intensive care and psychiatry. Few studies …

Objective To detect and analyse incidents (Is) and adverse events (AEs) in the ED. We
hypothesised that I/AE are associated with patient load. Methods We undertook a case …

Objectives: The study was performed to determine the incidence, outcome and preventability
of adverse events (AE) in an ED. Methods: The Quality in Australian Health Care Study …