TY - JOUR AU - Albarrak, Ahmed I. AU - Almansour, Ammar S. AU - Alzahrani, Ali A. AU - Almalki, Abdulaziz H. AU - Alshehri, Abdulrahman A. AU - Mohammed, Rafiuddin PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/14 TI - Assessment of patient safety challenges and electronic occurrence variance reporting (e-OVR) barriers facing physicians and nurses in the emergency department: a cross sectional study JO - BMC Emergency Medicine SP - 98 VL - 20 IS - 1 AB - The purpose of patient safety is to prevent harm occurring in the healthcare system. Patient safety is improved by the use of a reporting system in which healthcare workers can document and learn from incidents, and thus prevent potential medical errors. The present study aimed to determine patient safety challenges facing clinicians (physicians and nurses) in emergency medicine and to assess barriers to using e-OVR (electronic occurrence variance reporting). SN - 1471-227X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-020-00391-2 DO - 10.1186/s12873-020-00391-2 ID - Albarrak2020 ER -