Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Feb 2013
Multicenter StudyCreating an infrastructure for safety event reporting and analysis in a multicenter pediatric emergency department network.
Hospital incident reporting is widely used but has had limited effectiveness for improving patient safety nationally. We describe the process of establishing a multi-institutional safety event reporting system. ⋯ Incident reporting provides qualitative data concerning safety events. Perceived legal barriers to sharing confidential data can be addressed. Large variability in reporting rates and low rates of providing contributing factors suggest a need for standardization and improvement of safety event reporting.