Purpose: To assess awareness and use of the incident reporting system among doctors and nurses working in hospital surgery departments and to identify the reasons inhibiting incident reporting.Methods: It was used a cross-sectional study design. The study population comprised doctors and nurses working in the surgery departments of a university's adult and children's hospital. A form including an incident reporting questionnaire was administered to the population.Results: Compared to doctors, nurses were more aware of the existence of the incident reporting system, filled out more incident reporting forms, and were more knowledgeable about where and how to access the forms and what to do once they were complete. The main barriers to incident reporting were a lack of feedback, completing the form being too time consuming, and the ward being busy.
Conclusion:Nurses are more knowledgeable about incident reporting and report more incidents than doctors, who have more concerns. Doctors' main reason for not reporting incidents is the ward being busy while for nurses it is a lack of feedback.
Aim: This study aims to identify the prevalence of unscheduled absenteeism resulting in loss of labor among healthcare professionals and its cost burden on hospitals. Method: The study was conducted through the participation of 951 hospital employees that comprised the doctors, nurses/midwives, other healthcare professionals and administrative staff employed at two different hospitals in Turkey. 'Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ)' developed by Kessler et al. (2003)
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