A Novel Indicator for How Fairly Hospitals Treat Healthcare Professionals’ Safety Improvement Efforts: Differences in Hospital Responses to Medical Error Reports Depending the Type of Healthcare Professional Reporting the Event
Abstract:Error reports and subsequent improvement actions are critical components in patient safety, possibly preventing the same events from occurring again. This study investigates how fairly or differently hospitals respond to healthcare professionals' medication error reports according to their job types (i.e., physicians, nurses, and pharmacists). Data from a national voluntary medication error reporting system (MEDMARX) in the US from 1997 through 2007 were utilized for this study. A logistic regression model was… Show more
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