Reporting Patient Safety Events: A Cross-Cultural Trial

Incident reporting is one of the major contributions to perinatal safety since communication and teamwork related issues are identified as leading causes of perinatal incidents. To maintain a high level of perinatal safety, it is critical to recognize problems and to prevent them from recurring. The challenges of reporting perinatal incidents remain in incompleteness in terms of reported data and substantial analytical bias. This study aims to utilize the Common Formats to report perinatal incidents. A cross-cultural study was performed by (1) translating relevant Common Formats into Chinese; (2) utilizing translated forms to report perinatal incident in a Chinese hospital; (3) employing a cross-cultural discussion.