Mixed methods evaluation of a specialty-specific system to promote physician engagement in safety and quality reporting in a large academic health system.

ABSTRACT: Incident reporting systems (IRS) can improve care quality and patient safety, yet their impact is limited by clinician engagement. Our objective was to assess barriers to reporting in a hospital-wide IRS and use data to inform ongoing improvement of a specialty-specific IRS embedded in the electronic health record targeting anaesthesiologists. This quality improvement (QI) evaluation used mixed methods, including qualitative interviews, faculty surveys and user data from the specialty-specific IRS. We conducted 24 semi-structured interviews from January to May 2023 in a large academic health system in Northern California. Participants included adult and paediatric anaesthesiologists, operating room nurses, surgeons and QI operators, recruited through convenience and snowball sampling. We i

SUBMITTER: Lessios AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11293395 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature