Voluntary medical incident reporting tool to improve physician reporting of medical errors in an emergency department.

Okafor NG, Doshi PB, Miller SK, et al. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16:1073-1078.

After introducing a web-based voluntary incident reporting system in an academic emergency department, physician-reported incidents rose from 81 events in 2009 to 561 events in 2012. A prior PSNet perspective discussed incident reporting systems and the importance of not only increasing reporting rates but also following through with safety improvements.