TY - JOUR T1 - Barriers to staff reporting adverse incidents in NHS hospitals JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 117 LP - 120 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.5-2-117 VL - 5 IS - 2 AU - Joanna Lucy Bovis AU - John Pradeep Edwin AU - Chris Patrick Bano AU - Athanasios Tyraskis AU - Dinnish Baskaran AU - Karthik Karuppaiah Y1 - 2018/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/2/117.abstract N2 - 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. ER -