Seminal reports that launched the modern field of patient safety highlighted the importance
of learning from critical incidents. 1 2 Since then, incident reporting systems have become …

The success of incident reporting in improving safety, although obvious in aviation and other
high-risk industries, is yet to be seen in health-care systems. An incident reporting system …

It is unclear whether the common finding of improved organizational performance with
increasing organizational experience is driven by learning from success, learning from …

The leading figure in qualitative health research (QHR), Janice M. Morse, asserts that QHR
is its own separate discipline—distinct from both traditional health research and other kinds …

A significant challenge for government and business project organisations is to ensure that
lessons are learned and that mistakes of the past are not repeated. Both knowledge and …

Mistakes are inevitable in medicine. To learn how medical mistakes relate to subsequent
changes in practice, we surveyed 254 internal medicine house officers. One hundred …

Objective: The incidence and incidence over time of cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients is
unknown. We sought to estimate the event rate and temporal trends of adult inhospital …

Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to
identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants …

The objective of this systematic review is to analyse the relative risk reduction on medication
error and adverse drug events (ADE) by computerized physician order entry systems …

Methods: Our systematic literature review identified 2 groups of studies:(1) those comparing
the effectiveness of IRSs with other methods of error reporting and (2) those examining the …