title: Analyzing voluntary medical incident reports.
abstract: Voluntary medical incident reports lacking consistency and accuracy impede the ultimate use of the reports for patient safety research. To improve this, two coders examined harm score usage in a voluntary medical incident reporting system where the harm scores were selected from a predefined list by different reporters. The two coders inter-rater agreement percent was 82%. The major categories and reviewed harm score jointly demonstrate that this process is critical and necessary in preparing the voluntary reports for further content and semantics analysis.
authors.affiliation: Health Management and Informatics, University of Missouri, Columbus, MO, USA.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.forename: Luan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhijian
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Alafaireet
authors.forename: Illhoi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yoo
mesh_terms: D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008923:Missouri; D012308:Risk Management / Q000145:classification* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014836:Volition