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 …

Unanticipated patient adverse events can also have a serious negative impact on clinicians.
The term second victim was coined to highlight the experience of health professionals with …

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 …

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 …

Objective To investigate hospital patients' reports of undesirable events in their health care.
Design Cross‐sectional mixed methods design. Participants A total of 80 medical and …

Purpose: Little is known about how well hospitalized patients can identify errors or injuries in
their care. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to elicit incident reports from hospital …

In the past decade, hospitals and healthcare workers have become more familiar with
medical errors and the harm they can cause. As a result, incident investigation has become …

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 …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Despite increased attention to patient safety in recent years,
physician involvement in hospital safety activities appears to have remained limited …

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 …