Patient safety incident reporting in an emergency department: a one-year review

Piloting an online incident reporting system in Australasian emergency medicine

“…The incident reporting rate in our pilot study was 0.08% per attendance. In comparison, Hashemi et al . identified a 0.16% ( n = 179) reporting rate in a UK ED with 113 000 annual attendances; however, only 0.1% ( n = 115) were defined as patient safety incidents and most (89%) reports were made by nurses.…”

“…18 The incident reporting rate in our pilot study was 0.08% per attendance. In comparison, Hashemi et al 19 identified a 0.16% (n = 179) reporting rate in a UK ED with 113 000 annual attendances; however, only 0.1% (n = 115) were defined as patient safety incidents and most (89%) reports were made by nurses. Brubacher et al 20 found a 0.14% incidence of events reported, mainly by nurses, across eight EDs in British Columbia, but suggested that this represented 'marked underreporting'.…”

The use of a contextual, modal and psychological classification of medication errors in the emergency department: a retrospective descriptive study

“…As well, most clinical situations only allow patients' partial medical histories to be known (Peth 2003). It is therefore unsurprising that medication errors are as common in the ED (Croskerry et al 2004) as they are in the in-patient population (Hashemi et al 2010).…”

The Emergency Medicine Events Register: An analysis of the first 150 incidents entered into a novel, online incident reporting registry

“…German researchers developed a pre‐hospital incident reporting system that collected nearly 850 reports in 7 years . Other studies have used ED data collected from national authorities, nurse‐reported incident data or directly requested by researchers . However, in Australasian EDs, there has been little progress towards improving incident reporting practices since a paper‐based system piloted in the late 1990s .…”