On the role and effect of incentive mechanism in encouraging proactive reporting on adverse events in hospital / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Discussion of the role/effect of an incentive mechanism in encouraging proactive reporting of adverse events in hospital.Methods Applying an incentive mechanism to encourage medical staff to report on adverse events found in their hospitals.Incentives in question include financial rewards.alleviation or cancellation of some penalties for medical defects.These measures were followed by a comparison between the number and types of proactive reporting on adverse events with those prior to such measures.in addition to typical case studies.Results Comparison of the figures during Jan.August,2007 and those during the sanqe period in 2008 after the incentive mechanism was in place found significant changes.For example,cases of proactive reporting rose from 34 to 176.Most significant changes were found in even types including medical malpractice.For medical disposal events,the number of events rose from 5 in 2007 to 10 in 2008;events in medical technical inspections from 0 to 24 cases;and that of patients identification from 2 to 14.These figures were followed by typical case analysis and improvements.Conclusion Such all incentive mechanism has significantly increased the number of proactive reporting on adverse events in hospitals,changing the types of such reporting to stand out malpractice related events,and enhancing the reporting to improve quality of care in hospitals.