PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Joanna Lucy Bovis
AU  - John Pradeep Edwin
AU  - Chris Patrick Bano
AU  - Athanasios Tyraskis
AU  - Dinnish Baskaran
AU  - Karthik Karuppaiah
TI  - Barriers to staff reporting adverse incidents in NHS hospitals
AID  - 10.7861/futurehosp.5-2-117
DP  - 2018 Jun 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 117--120
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/2/117.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/2/117.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2018 Jun 01; 5
AB  - Our study assessed barriers to reporting adverse incidents (AIs). Adverse incident reporting (AIR), although it is a pillar of risk management, has a wide variation in staff perception and usage.A questionnaire was used in five NHS hospitals to assess 267 members of multidisciplinary team (MDT) staff usage of AIR. Thirty-three percent of staff had never reported an adverse incident (AI). Fourty-one percent of staff had missed opportunities to report AIs due to a poor response to previous reports. The group who missed opportunities had a significantly higher proportion of not having received feedback to their previous AI (p=0.03). In the group who had received training, 79% had submitted an AI. This was significantly higher than the group who had not received training (63%, p=0.02).Our study revealed that training and feedback following AIR are two major factors that could improve confidence in and use of AI reporting.