Families as Partners in Hospital Error and Adverse Event Surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medical errors and adverse events (AEs) are common among hospitalized children. While clinician reports are the foundation of operational hospital safety surveillance and a key component of multifaceted research surveillance, patient and family reports are not routinely gathered. We hypothesized that a novel family-reporting mechanism would improve incident detection.

Objective

To compare error and AE rates (1) gathered systematically with vs without family reporting, (2) reported by families vs clinicians, and (3) reported by families vs hospital incident reports.

Design, setting, and participants

We conducted a prospective cohort study including the parents/caregivers of 989 hospitalized patients 17 years and younger (total 3902 patient-days) and their cl

SUBMITTER: Khan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5526631 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature