Interventions to improve resident reporting of patient safety events: a quality improvement initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient safety events (PSE) are opportunities to improve patient care but physicians rarely report them. In a previous study, residents identified knowledge regarding what constitutes a PSE, perceived lack of time, complexity of the reporting process, lack of feedback, and perceived failure to resolve the issue despite reporting to be barriers limiting their PSE reporting. The residency programs and system patient safety and quality improvement departments created targeted interventions to address identified barriers.

Objective

Assess effectiveness of targeted interventions on improving PSE reporting rates amongst residents.

Methods

As part of a multi-residency patient safety project, interventions were created to focus on the removal of barriers to reporti

SUBMITTER: Singal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7671725 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature