Date
5-22-2024
Department
School of Nursing
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Chair
Kristine Diggins
Keywords
patient safety, patient safety event reporting, patient safety reporting, impact patient safety reporting, adverse events, adverse event reporting, patient harm, harm events
Disciplines
Nursing
Recommended Citation
Amitrano, Catherine M., "The Impact of Reporting Patient Safety Events: An Integrative Review" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5611.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5611
Abstract
Since the 1999 Institute of Medicine landmark report, To Err is Human, leading organizations such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have been working with healthcare leaders to reduce patient harm. A problem in healthcare is errors continue to occur at alarming rates. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted patient safety efforts and organizations are trying to get to pre-pandemic patient safety progress. The purpose of this integrative review was to review and evaluate individual research studies on patient safety event reporting and summarize what is known about the topic in terms of how patient safety event reporting impacts patient safety. The integrative review aims to address gaps in the literature related to the impact of patient safety event reporting.
