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ArticleFrontiers in health services2025

Decades of failure to prevent harm to patients-where are we going wrong? A mixed methods study of the perspectives of health services staff across Australia and internationally.

Mia Bierbaum, Yinghua Yu, Charlotte J Molloy, Lorelle Bowditch, Paul M Salmon, Sandy Middleton, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Peter Hibbert

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Article in Frontiers in health services, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Assessing the quality of patient safety incident investigation reports.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2026
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  5. What Do Consumers Need Before, During and After a Patient Safety Incident Review? A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Mia BierbaumAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Yinghua YuAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Charlotte J MolloyAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Lorelle BowditchAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Paul M SalmonCentre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia.
Sandy MiddletonNursing Research Institute, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Jeffrey BraithwaiteAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Peter HibbertAustralian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Context: Patient Safety Incident (PSI) reviews are undertaken frequently across health services in response to serious adverse events. This study investigated experiences and perceptions of healthcare professionals involved in incident review processes across four jurisdictions in Australia, alongside insights from international patient safety experts. These findings will inform the co-design of improvements to PSI reviews. Methods: Semi-structured interviews and focus groups were conducted, and participants completed an attitudinal and demographic survey. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted, and findings were deductively mapped against the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Findings: Australian ( Conclusions: These findings have identified a need for system re-engineering of PSI reviews to address identified challenges and will inform the development of Best Practice Principles and a codesign of patient safety tactics for trial in-situ.

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adverse eventshospital incident reportinghospitalshuman factorsincident reviewmedical errorspatient safetyrisk management

Identifiers

PMID40964190
PMCPMC12436320

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