Why Clinicians Don't Report Adverse Drug Events: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse drug events are unintended and harmful events related to medications. Adverse drug events are important for patient care, quality improvement, drug safety research, and postmarketing surveillance, but they are vastly underreported.

Objective

Our objectives were to identify barriers to adverse drug event documentation and factors contributing to underreporting.

Methods

This qualitative study was conducted in 1 ambulatory center, and the emergency departments and inpatient wards of 3 acute care hospitals in British Columbia between March 2014 and December 2016. We completed workplace observations and focus groups with general practitioners, hospitalists, emergency physicians, and hospital and community pharmacists. We analyzed field notes by coding an

SUBMITTER: Hohl CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5849794 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature