Assessment of patient safety challenges and electronic occurrence variance reporting (e-OVR) barriers facing physicians and nurses in the emergency department: a cross sectional study

Assessment of patient safety challenges and electronic occurrence variance reporting (e-OVR) barriers facing physicians and nurses in the emergency department: a cross sectional study

Abstract Background The purpose of patient safety is to prevent harm occurring in the healthcare system. Patient safety is improved by the use of a reporting system in which healthcare workers can document and learn from incidents, and thus prevent potential medical errors. The present study aimed t...

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Main Authors: Ahmed I. Albarrak, Ammar S. Almansour, Ali A. Alzahrani, Abdulaziz H. Almalki, Abdulrahman A. Alshehri, Rafiuddin Mohammed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Electronic occurrence variance reporting
Emergency department
Healthcare
Patient safety
Barriers to reporting
Physicians
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00391-2

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