Context: Little is known about hospitals' adverse-event-reporting systems, or how they use
reported data to improve practices. This information is needed to assess effects of national …

Identification and measurement of adverse medical events is central to patient safety,
forming a foundation for accountability, prioritizing problems to work on, generating ideas for …

Objective Determine the degree of congruence between several measures of adverse
events. Design Cross-sectional study to assess frequency and type of adverse events …

Background The National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) collects reports about
patient safety incidents in England. Government regulators use NRLS data to assess the …

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

Background: US hospitals have had voluntary incident reporting systems for many years, but
the effectiveness of these systems is unknown. To facilitate substantial improvements in …

Background: Internationally, there is increasing recognition of the need to collect and
analyse data on patient safety incidents, to facilitate learning and develop solutions. The …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Some hospitals have instituted voluntary electronic error
reporting systems (e-ERSs) to gather data on medical errors, adverse events, near misses …

We carried out a cross-sectional online survey of fellows and members of the Royal College
of Physicians to establish physicians' experiences of adverse patient safety events and near …

Objective: To compare two methods for identifying adverse events using routinely recorded
hospital abstract data in all public and private hospitals in Victoria, Australia. Methods …