Experiences from ten years of incident reporting in health care: a qualitative study among department managers and coordinators

Abstract Background Incident reporting (IR) in health care has been advocated as a means to improve patient safety. The purpose of IR is to identify safety hazards and develop interventions to mitigate these hazards in order to reduce harm in health care. Using qualitative methods is a way to reveal...

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Main Authors: Siw Carlfjord, Annica Öhrn, Anna Gunnarsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-018-2876-5