General practitioners' attitudes toward reporting and learning from adverse events: results from a survey.
OBJECTIVE
To investigate GPs' attitudes to and willingness to report and learn from adverse events and to study how a reporting system should function.


METHODS
Survey.


METHODS
General practice in Denmark.


METHODS
GPs' attitudes to exchange of experience with colleagues and others, and circumstances under which such exchange is accepted.


METHODS
A structured questionnaire sent to 1198 GPs of whom 61% responded. RESULTS. GPs had a positive attitude towards discussing adverse events in the clinic with colleagues and staff and in their continuing medical education groups. The GPs had a positive attitude to reporting adverse events to a database if the system granted legal and administrative immunity to reporters. The majority preferred a reporting system located at a research institute.


CONCLUSIONS
GPs have a very positive attitude towards discussing and reporting adverse events. This project encourages further research and pilot projects testing concrete reporting systems.
Mikkelsen
Thorbjørn H
TH
The Research Unit for General Practice, University of Aarhus, Denmark. thm@alm.au.dk
Sokolowski
Ineta
I
Olesen
Frede
F
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012308:Risk Management; D017751:Safety Management; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires