Supporting Error Management and Safety Climate in Ambulatory Care Practices: The CIRSforte Study.

Background: To improve patient safety, it is important that healthcare facilities learn from critical incidents. Tools such as reporting and learning systems and team meetings structure error management and promote learning from incidents. To enhance error management in ambulatory care practices, it is important to promote a climate of safety and ensure personnel share views on safety policies and procedures.

[17 years of the critical incident reporting and learning system "jeder-fehler-zaehlt.de" for primary care: Analysis of reports].

Background: The topic of patient safety has been a subject of much discussion since the end of the last millennium. Ensuring patient safety is a central challenge in health care. An important tool to raise awareness for and learn from adverse events and thus promote patient safety are error-reporting and learning systems (Critical Incident Reporting System = CIRS).

Strength of Safety Measures Introduced by Medical Practices to Prevent a Recurrence of Patient Safety Incidents: An Observational Study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the strength of safety measures described in incident reports in outpatient care.

Methods: An incident reporting project in German outpatient care included 184 medical practices with differing fields of specialization. The practices were invited to submit anonymous incident reports to the project team 3 times for 17 months.

Providing an interactive undergraduate elective on safety culture online - concept and evaluation.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more difficult to maintain high quality in medical education. As online formats are often considered unsuitable, interactive workshops and seminars have particularly often been postponed or cancelled. To meet the challenge, we converted an existing interactive undergraduate elective on safety culture into an online event.

[Design and evaluation of a preclinical medical elective titled "Safety culture in healthcare: Every error counts!"].

Introduction: The World Health Organization has called for more importance to be attached to the subject of patient safety in medical studies. However, teaching staff are unsure when the right time is to include this topic in existing medical school curricula. The aim of this article is to present the learning objectives, design and evaluation of a two-day elective on patient safety offered in the preclinical phase of medical studies at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Frankfurt am Main.

Characteristics of Critical Incident Reporting Systems in Primary Care: An International Survey.

Objective: The aim of the study was to support the development of future critical incident reporting systems (CIRS) in primary care by collecting information on existing systems. Our focus was on processes used to report and analyze incidents, as well as strategies used to overcome difficulties.

Methods: Based on literature from throughout the world, we identified existing CIRS in primary care.

Improving critical incident reporting in primary care through education and involvement.

Background: Critical incident reporting systems (CIRS) can be an important tool for the identification of organisational safety needs and thus to improve patient safety. In German primary care, CIRS use is obligatory but remains rare. Studies on CIRS implementation in primary care are lacking, but those from secondary care recommend involving management personnel.

[jeder-fehler-zaehlt.de: Content of and prospective benefits from a critical incident reporting and learning system (CIRS) for primary care].

Critical incident reporting and learning systems (CIRS) have been recommended as an instrument to promote patient safety for a long time. However, both their scientific value and their actual impact have been disputed. The nationwide German CIRS for primary care has been in operation since September 2004.