Introduction:

•Incident reporting is widely acknowledged as one of the crucial ways of improving patient safety through effective monitoring, prevention, and reduction in the occurrence of patient safety events.

•Despite such significant contribution, the magnitude of underreporting remains high across the globe 2 and its effectiveness is diminished by barriers related to concerns about repercussions to the reporter.

•When employees do not speak up, organizations miss opportunities for improvement and learning which can be overcome by nurturing a culture that can subdue these barriers.

•Research on reporting behaviors by health care professionals shows that enablers and barriers to reporting are rooted in beliefs which have consequences at the individual level.

•Very limited framework for incident reporting exists in Indian hospitals.

 

Aim:

This study was aimed to identify the factors influencing reporting of patient safety incidents at a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India.