Title:
Data quality in medical incident reporting systems
Short Description and Focus of Chapter:
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the first-ever World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2019, which remarks a global campaign to create awareness of patient safety and urge people to show their commitment to making healthcare safer. Reporting medical incidents or patient safety events (PSE) has been recommended as an effective approach for the detection of patterns, discovery of underlying factors, and generation of solutions. It is believed that PSE reporting systems (e-reporting) could be a good resource to share and to learn from the reporting, if the event data are collected in a properly structured format. Unfortunately, the prevalence of underreporting and low quality of the reports has become barriers to ultimately achieve the goal of preventing and reducing medical incidents. This chapter describes the efforts that have been made to improve the e-reporting through informatics approaches, including a review of PSE taxonomies and conceptual framework, studies of medication events, patient falls, pressure injuries, and PSE involved in health information technologies, and design requirements for future e-reporting systems.
Corresponding Author:
Prof. Yang Gong
Position/Affiliation:
Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
Short Biography:
Professor Yang Gong, MD, PhD is a federally funded physi-cian informaticist on patient safety at the School of Biome-dical Informatics at UTHealth. He received his medical training in China and his PhD of clinical informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. His research areas are human-computer interaction in clinical settings, including patient safety reporting system, clinical communication and clinical decision support. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent presenter at national/international conferences, including AMIA, Medinfo, HIMSS, AHIMA, HIMSSasia, etc. Professor Gong assumed Chair of clinical decision support working group at American Medical Informatics Association. He mentors postdoctoral fellow, doctoral and masters stu-dents of health informatics and teaches clinical decision support system, health data dis-play and clinical communication.
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Submission Status of Book Chapter:
Abstract: submitted
Draft: pending
Final Version: pending
