How do healthcare practitioners use incident data to improve patient safety in Japan? A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient incident reporting systems have been widely used for ensuring safety and improving quality in care settings in many countries. However, little is known about the way in which incident data are used by frontline clinical staff. Furthermore, while the use of a systems perspective has been reported as an effective way of learning from incident data in a multidisciplinary team, the level of adaptability of this perspective to a different cultural context has not been widely explored. The primary aim of the study, therefore, was to investigate how healthcare practitioners in Japan perceive the reporting systems and utilize a systems perspective in learning from incident data in acute care and mental health settings.

Methods

A non-experimental, descriptive and e

SUBMITTER: Kodate N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862528 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature