Sociocultural Factors Influencing Incident Reporting Among Physicians and Nurses: Understanding Frames Underlying Self- and Peer-Reporting Practices

Abstract

Physicians and nurses use various frames that bound their views of self and peer incident reporting-further progress should incorporate an understanding of these deep-seated views and beliefs.

The reasons for Chinese nursing staff to report adverse events: a questionnaire survey

“…Learning from AEs is of great importance to improve patient safety and the quality of care, it can improve management by effectively reducing the occurrence of patient harm from preventable incidents (Hewitt et al . ). In this regard, accurate and timely adverse event (AE) reporting takes on a profound importance in professional learning around the incident (Abbasi et al .…”

Improving Incident Reporting Among Physician Trainees

“…7 Commonly cited barriers to reporting include fear of retribution, lack of time, and unclear outcomes or feedback. 8–10 …”

Automating patient safety incident reporting to improve healthcare quality in the defence medical services

“…It could be argued that these are the events that are the most valuable in terms of promoting patient safety, where warnings can be disseminated that might prevent a future harm event. Reporting of actual harm events is bound by deep-rooted, long-held sociocultural beliefs, which vary across the multidisciplinary healthcare professional groups 21. The reporting culture should be nurtured to engage personnel in the practice of reporting events.…”

“…The reporting culture should be nurtured to engage personnel in the practice of reporting events. This can be achieved by changing the way in which questions are presented and phrased in the reporting system, which shifts the emphasis from assigning the roles and responsibilities to those involved in the event to one that allows the reporter to depersonalise it; consequently, this places greater emphasis on the possibility of learning from the incident 21. Collective education should place the emphasis on preventing recurrence rather than attempting to establish the healthcare professional's actions or omissions.…”