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Anonymous medication error reporting in a district general hospital

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Citation

Ring NA (2000) Anonymous medication error reporting in a district general hospital. Journal of Clinical Excellence, 2 (2), pp. 87-91. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=yv4JPVwI&eid=2-s2.0-0033708992&md5=966b2fa07dc7537f7a268c521aad87f7

Abstract
Anonymous reporting of medication errors was introduced into a district general hospital as a short-term pilot project. For the duration of the project this system ran in parallel with the existing official system, where staff reporting medication errors do not retain anonymity. The pilot project aimed to compare the number of errors reported anonymously with those reported via the official system during the same period. The results clearly show that the official error reporting system was ineffective when compared against one where anonymity can be retained.

Keywords
Anonymous reporting; Clinical risk; Medication errors

Journal
Journal of Clinical Excellence: Volume 2, Issue 2

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2000
Publisher URLhttp://www.scopus.com/…7a268c521aad87f7
ISSN1465-9883