Abstract:Background:
Incident reports submitted during times of organizational stress may reveal unique insights.
Purpose:
To understand the insights conveyed in hospital incident reports about how work system factors affected medication safety during a coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) surge.
Methods:
We randomly selected 100 medication safety incident reports from an academic medical center (December 2020 to January 2021), identified near misses and errors, and classified contributing work system factors using … Show more
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