A nationwide medication incidents reporting system in The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many Dutch hospitals have established internal systems for reporting incidents. However, such internal systems do not allow learning from incidents that occur in other hospitals. Therefore a multicenter, information technology (IT) supported reporting system named central medication incidents registration (CMR) was developed. This article describes the architecture, implementation and current status of the CMR in The Netherlands and compare it with similar systems in other countries.

System description

Adequate IT is required to sufficiently support a multicenter reporting system. The CMR system consists of a website, a database, a web-based reporting form, an application to import reports generated in other reporting systems, an application to generate an overview

SUBMITTER: Cheung KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3197996 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature