PMID- 34957508
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220509
LR  - 20231105
IS  - 1464-3677 (Electronic)
IS  - 1353-4505 (Print)
IS  - 1353-4505 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 2
DP  - 2022 May 3
TI  - Incident reporting reduction during the COVID-19 pandemic in a tertiary Italian 
      hospital: A retrospective analysis.
LID - 10.1093/intqhc/mzab161 [doi]
LID - mzab161
AB  - BACKGROUND: Incident reporting (IR) is one of the most used systems to gain 
      knowledge of adverse events (AEs) and to identify sources of risk. During 
      COVID-19 pandemic, several organizational changes have been implemented to 
      respond adequately and effectively to the emergency; this required the suspension 
      of most deferrable activities. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to investigate 
      whether IR attitude of health workers has been reduced during the pandemic event. 
      METHOD: A retrospective analysis was conducted at the Azienda Ospedale - 
      Universita di Padova (Italy), considering IR of years 2019 and 2020. To 
      standardize the effects of the decrease in admissions, we considered the number 
      of incidents per 1000 admissions. RESULTS: Data shows that during the first 
      (March-May 2020) and second waves (October-December 2020) of the COVID-19 
      pandemic there was a statistically significant reduction in the rate of IR for 
      every 1000 admissions (P = 0.001-Wilcoxon test), especially for AEs and in 
      COVID-19 units. CONCLUSION: This study shows a reduction in IR especially during 
      the first and second pandemic waves of COVID-19 in year 2020. Education and 
      training interventions could be fundamental to raise awareness of the importance 
      of IR in health workers, as this could provide opportunities to understand what 
      is impacting on safety in a particular healthcare context and enable continuous 
      improvement.
CI  - (c) The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of 
      International Society for Quality in Health Care. All rights reserved. For 
      permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
FAU - Pauletti, Giulia
AU  - Pauletti G
AD  - Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, via Gabelli 63, Padova 
      35121, Italy.
FAU - Girotto, Cristian
AU  - Girotto C
AD  - Department of Directional Hospital Management, Padua University Hospital, via 
      Giustiniani 3, Padova 35128, Italy.
FAU - De Luca, Giuseppe
AU  - De Luca G
AD  - Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University 
      of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, Padova 35128 , Italy.
FAU - Saieva, Anna Maria
AU  - Saieva AM
AD  - Department of Directional Hospital Management, Padua University Hospital, via 
      Giustiniani 3, Padova 35128, Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Qual Health Care
JT  - International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International 
      Society for Quality in Health Care
JID - 9434628
SB  - IM
MH  - *COVID-19/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pandemics
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Risk Management
MH  - Tertiary Care Centers
PMC - PMC9129139
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Covid-19
OT  - incident reporting
OT  - patient safety
OT  - risk management
EDAT- 2021/12/28 06:00
MHDA- 2022/05/10 06:00
PMCR- 2021/12/27
CRDT- 2021/12/27 06:40
PHST- 2021/04/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/11/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2021/12/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/12/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/05/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/12/27 06:40 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/12/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 6484503 [pii]
AID - mzab161 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/intqhc/mzab161 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Qual Health Care. 2022 May 3;34(2):mzab161. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzab161.