Patient-Reported Incident Measure (PRIM) tools for reporting patient safety incidents: protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patient safety incidents during healthcare cause a high burden and mortality, but many go unreported. Involving patients and caregivers in the identification and reporting of safety incidents would add value to the current incident reporting systems used by health professionals. Identifying and analysing patient safety incidents is essential to prevent future events, allowing organisations to apply a learning-from-error approach and to implement improvement plans. Patient-Reported Incident Measures are tools for patients and caregivers to report safety issues related to their healthcare. In accordance with WHO's patient safety taxonomy, the term patient safety incidents is used throughout this protocol to encompass events that do and do not reach the patient, including

SUBMITTER: Osorio D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12186050 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature