Current Healthcare Industry Error Reporting Systems
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Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America; Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, editors.Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2000.ContentsHardcopy Version at National Academies PressSearch term < PrevNext > 5Error Reporting SystemsAlthough the previous chapter talked about creating and disseminating new knowledge to prevent errors from ever happening, this voluntary error reporting systems chapter looks at what happens after an error occurs and how to learn from errors and prevent their recurrence. One way to learn from errors is to establish a reporting system. Reporting systems have the potential to serve two important functions. They can hold providers accountable for performance or, alternatively, they can provide information that leads to improved safety. Conceptually, these purposes are not incompatible, but in reality, they can prove difficult to satisfy simultaneously.Reporting systems whose primary purpose is to hold providers accountable are "mandatory reporting systems." Reporting focuses on errors associated with serious injuries or death. Most mandatory reporting systems are operated by state regulatory programs that have the authority to investigate specific cases and issue penalties or fines for wrong-doing. These systems serve three purposes. First, they provide the public with a minimum level of protection by assuring that the most serious errors are reported and investigated and appropriate fol
of Clinical Oncology. Medical Errors: Focusing More on What and Why, Less on Who Remember, there is nothing you can do to change [the past], but you can use its lessons to improve your future. mandatory reporting of medical errors —Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, MD Disclosure of medical errors and improvement in patient safety
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are inexorably linked, and provide one of the strongest reasons to report and disclose errors, including near misses in which no
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harm comes to the patient. As Rosner et al1 notes, “The paradox of modern quality improvement is that only by admitting and forgiving error can its rate be reduced.” Error reports can be valuable learning tools http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225170/ as well—both for those immediately involved and for the health care community at large. Nevertheless, US health care has not had a good record when it comes to reporting medical errors, even significant ones. For example, 20 states have mandatory reporting systems, but only six have received more than 100 reports in 1999. Yet the Institute of Medicine (IOM; Washington, DC) estimates that more than 1 million preventable adverse events occur http://jop.ascopubs.org/content/3/2/66.full each year in the United States, with up to 98,000 being fatal, a figure equivalent to one major airliner crash daily.2,3 Next Section Overcoming Barriers Barriers to error reporting are found at many levels in the health care system. Moskop et al4 assert that US health systems are not generally designed to encourage error recognition, reporting, and remediation. Teaching hospitals have focused on the sequelae of errors rather than teaching ways to prevent them or the value of disclosing them. Physicians' training and attitudes place additional barriers to reporting errors. As the gatekeeper for a patient's care, the physician who commits an error, especially one that harms the patient, may feel deep shame, guilt, and a sense of failure. He or she may believe that disclosing the error to the patient will do irreparable damage to the physician-patient relationship and to the patient's trust in the health care system in general. Furthermore, physicians have historically received little or no training in how to communicate with patients and others about errors. Reporting systems have been relatively cumbersome. The process of completing detailed forms, submitting them up the chain of command, and attending meetings and interviews has deterred many health care professionals from reporting all but the most egregious errors. Both institutions a
Download Full-text PDF What should we report to medical error reporting https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8249580_What_should_we_report_to_medical_error_reporting_systems systems?Article (PDF Available) in Quality and Safety in Health Care 13(5):322-3 · November 2004 with 45 ReadsDOI: 10.1136/qhc.13.5.322 · Source: PubMed1st Susan M Dovey37.81 · University of Otago2nd R L PhillipsDiscover the world's research10+ million members100+ million publications100k+ research projectsJoin for free Medical error definitions............................................................... ........................What should we report to medical error reporting errorreporting systems?S M Dovey, R L Phillips...................................................................................A satisfactory definition of ‘‘medical error’’ still eludes usThe Netherlands is the latest countryto announce the development of anational medical error reportingsystem.1Australia has had one since1989, Denmark has one, the UKintroduced theirs in 2001, Canadaannounced their plans in 2003, medical error reporting and theUSA has a proliferation of error report-ing systems, including several thathave been going for a number ofyears and that have a well developedbody of knowledge steering their useand development—for example, theMedical Event Reporting System forTransfusion Medicine (MERS-TM)2andthe US Pharmacopeia’s MEDMARXReporting System3. Developed westerncountries do therefore seem to have‘‘bought into’’ the message that medicalerror reporting systems are a very ‘‘goodthing’’—although there is little evidencethat Johnson’s4pragmatic cautions havebeen well considered in setting themup.The reporting of ‘‘medical errors’’—whatever they are—is still an embryonicendeavor and, before national andinternational medical error reportingsystems get well under way, somecrucial topics—such as defining whatwe are to report to error reportingsystems—should be addressed withclarity. An occasional error reportingsystem has dealt with ambiguity overwhat needs to be reported by adopting alist of explicitly defined events ‘‘thatshould never happen’’,5but most are farless precise. Hopefu
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