Incidence of patient safety events and process-related human failures during intra-hospital transportation of patients: retrospective exploration from the institutional incident reporting system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intra-hospital transportation (IHT) might compromise patient safety because of different care settings and higher demand on the human operation. Reports regarding the incidence of IHT-related patient safety events and human failures remain limited.

Objective

To perform a retrospective analysis of IHT-related events, human failures and unsafe acts.

Setting

A hospital-wide process for the IHT and database from the incident reporting system in a medical centre in Taiwan.

Participants

All eligible IHT-related patient safety events between January 2010 to December 2015 were included.

Main outcome measures

Incidence rate of IHT-related patient safety events, human failure modes, and types of unsafe acts.

Results

There were 206 patient safety

SUBMITTER: Yang SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695373 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature