Adverse events and comparison of systematic and voluntary reporting from a paediatric intensive care unit.
Silas R, Tibballs J. Adverse events and comparison of systematic and voluntary reporting from a paediatric intensive care unit. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19(6):568-71. doi:10.1136/qshc.2009.032979.
This Australian study found that voluntary error reporting and systematic, contemporaneous error detection by trained clinicians each found a different subset of errors. However, neither method alone accurately identified all errors during the study period.