[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient safety incident and medication error reporting systems].

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the epidemiology of safety incidents (SI) and medication errors (ME) reported to the CISEMadrid notification system in the hospital and primary care settings of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS).

Materials and methods

Observational and descriptive study with a retrospective analysis of data including all CISEMadrid notifications from 01-Jan-2018 to 31-Dec-2020, from 33 hospitals and 262 health care centres of the SERMAS. The two periods in 2020 with the greatest increase in COVID-19 cases were identified to compare incidents reported in the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods.

Results

36,494 incidents were reported. Comparing both periods, an overall decrease in pandemic notifications of 60.7% was o

SUBMITTER: Macias Maroto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9149769 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature