Voluntarily reported emergency department errors.
Henneman PL, Blank FSJ, Smithline HA, et al. Voluntarily Reported Emergency Department Errors. J Patient Saf. 2008;1(3):126-132. doi:10.1097/01.jps.0000175694.39559.12.
The investigators studied an incentive-based voluntary reporting system in an emergency department and found that approximately half of errors were recovered, mainly by nurses, and that unrecovered errors impacted patients, most often with a delay in hospital stay.