New Research on Incident Reporting Systems
A new study published in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care shows that electronic management and clinical information systems can be used to improve the rate and quality of error reporting. The study was carried out in two hospitals in Sydney by a team of researchers from the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research at Macquarie University Sydney. They found the reporting rate for medication errors was very low, despite the practice being encouraged by hospital policies and senior management for quality improvement and patient safety standards. This corresponds with…Read more …