Background Patient safety measurement remains a global challenge. Patients are an
important but neglected source of learning; however, little is known about what patients can …

Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small
but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety …

Background Patients have been shown to report accurate observations of medical errors
and adverse events. Various methods of introducing patient reporting into patient safety …

Objectives To compare a new co-designed, patient incident reporting tool with three
established methods of detecting patient safety incidents and identify if the same incidents …

Background Patients have the potential to provide a rich source of information on both
organisational aspects of safety and patient safety incidents. This project aims to develop …

Background Patients have the potential to provide feedback on the safety of their care.
Recently, tools have been developed that ask patients to provide feedback on those factors …

Objective To evaluate the performance of a routine incident reporting system in identifying
patient safety incidents. Design Two stage retrospective review of patients9 case notes and …

Background Patient safety gained widespread public attention in the last 20 years. However,
most patient safety research relied upon professionals' exceptions and was realised …

Background Patient safety can be at stake in both hospital and general practice settings.
While severe patient safety incidents have been described, quantitative studies in large …

Article-at-a-Glance Background A study was conducted to examine and compare
information gleaned from five different reporting systems within one institution: incident …