Ten years of online incident reporting and learning using CPiRLS: implications for improved patient safety.

Background: Safety incident (SI) reporting and learning via incident reporting systems (IRSs) is used to identify areas for patient safety improvement. The chiropractic patient incident reporting and learning system (CPiRLS) is an online IRS that was launched in the UK in 2009 and, from time to time, has been licensed for use by the national members of the European Chiropractors' Union (ECU), members of Chiropractic Australia and a Canada-based research group. The primary aim of this project was to analyse the SIs submitted to CPiRLS over a 10-year period to identify key areas for patient safety improvement.

What are the risks of manual treatment of the spine? A scoping review for clinicians.

Background: Communicating to patients the risks of manual treatment to the spine is an important, but challenging element of informed consent. This scoping review aimed to characterise and summarise the available literature on risks and to describe implications for clinical practice and research.

Method: A methodological framework for scoping reviews was followed.

Evaluation of cervical proprioceptive function: optimizing protocols and comparison between tests in normal subjects.

Study Design: A test-retest design evaluated stability as well as within and between day reliability.

Objective: The study aimed to define optimum protocols for the cervical joint position error (JPE) and cervicocephalic kinesthesia tests and to investigate association between performances in the tests.

Summary Of Background Data: The cervical JPE and cervicocephalic kinesthesia tests are proposed as measures of cervical proprioception.