E M Steele, M A Whitmill, A Amos, Z A Oaks, R McGurk, M J Dance, L Mazur, A A Weiner, L B Marks, B S Chera, S Sud
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): Incident learning is key to developing and maintaining quality and safety in healthcare. We aimed to characterize acute and sustained changes in incident submissions, point of incident origin/detection, severity and associated contributing factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. HYPOTHESIS: The frequency and pattern of incident origin/detection were changed by altered workflows in response to COVID-19. MATERIALS/METHODS: Events from our experienced incident learning system were analyzed between three 12-month intervals: pre-COVID (March 1, 2019 - February 29, 2020), early-COVID (March 1, 2020 - February 28, 2021), and late-COVID (March 1, 2021 - February 28, 2022)...
October 1, 2023: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics