Investigating Electronic Incident Reporting Systems and Its Role Within Healthcare to Improve Patient Safety: An Integrative Literature Review
Lyndon Garvin Augustine
Abstract:Incident reporting is a welcomed practice in industries such as aviation for improving safety. This practice is now welcomed in healthcare in many countries (Vincent, 2010). For instance, In the UK, incident reporting is a component of individual hospital risk governance processes and a key requirement for National Health Service (NHS) Organizations (Rooksby et al., 2007). In spite of this, widespread implementation of incident reporting is still not clear even though reporting has resulted in improvements to … Show more
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