@article{ref1,
title="Incident monitoring in psychiatry",
journal="Journal of quality in clinical practice",
year="1998",
author="Wright, M. and Parker, G.",
volume="18",
number="4",
pages="249-261",
abstract="Critical Incident Monitoring (CIM) as an instrument of quality assurance (QA) has received increasing attention in recent years. The present study was developed to explore a potential role for CIM in QA for clinical psychiatry. A questionnaire was sent to psychiatrists and requested retrospective reporting of clinical incidents, and a pilot study of an inpatient-based incident reporting system was performed. All Fellows of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) were sent a questionnaire. Eight psychiatric inpatient services were invited to participate in the pilot study. The returns of the questionnaires were aggregated and analysed to reveal a relatively small number of separate incident types, with little difference between the 'adverse outcome' and 'near-miss' categories. Similar results were found with the pilot study. It was concluded that the development of a unified incident reporting system for use by psychiatric clinicians and psychiatric services may add usefully to existing quality improvement processes.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1320-5455",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}