Anonymous Reporting

The reporting of safety issues must be made easy, simple, and confidential. Many organizations have a telephone number that is a hotline to a recording system. Employees can dial the number in secrecy and report unsafe conditions or acts or other items concerning safety. This gives employees confidence that they can be a part of the safety system without repercussion. Computer terminals can have an input spreadsheet where the issue is reported and submitted to a central receiving office that distributes the item to the correct department or person concerned. 

Speaking to a supervisor is not always an ideal method of reporting a safety issue or concern. Employees may feel more comfortable reporting via other means, as they may have reported to the supervisor in the past with negative effects. In some instances the supervisor may have taken the report as a personal reflection of his leadership and may have taken offense. 

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Anonymous, Report of validation study of assessment of direct immunotoxicity in the rat. The ICICIS Group Investigators. International Collaborative Immunotoxicity Study, Toxicology, 125, 183, 1998. 

Beginning with a system for anonymous reporting of incidents. 

Anonymous, Report of the Working Party on Residues of Long Acting Antibiotics at Injection Sites. National Registration Authority, Camberra, Australia (1995). 

The influence of this work was epoch-making and did more than any other work of the century to arouse a truly critical spirit of scientific logic in chemical thinking. The book is written in the form of a discussion among a group of scientific friends, Carneades representing the sceptical chemist Themistus, the exponent of the Aristotelian or Peripatetic four elements Philoponus, the defender of the three Paracelsan principles, Eleutherius an independent and open-minded participant, and I, the anonymous reporter of the conversation.27... 

Anonymous. Report on clomipramine H. Kuwait University Drug Adverse React Series 1983 2 14. 

Voluntary reports are usually made by the person who detects the error. In many organizations, individuals are afraid to report errors, because there is fear that they might be associated with disciplinary actions. An anonymous reporting program may promote better error reporting. 

Anonymous. Report on Health and Social Subjects 37. London HMSO, 1989. 

The one pot synthesis of triarylsulfonium salts by reaction of an aromatic Grignard reagent with thionyl chloride was anonymously reported in 1988 [44]. 

The Institute of Medicine (lOM) estimates that between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths annually in the U.S. result from medical errors. While there is some debate about this estimate, it is clear that medication errors are common and result in significant adverse effects, including death. Databases of anonymously reported errors are maintained jointly by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), the U.S. Pharmacopeia Medication Errors Reporting Program (USP MERP), and the FDA s MedWatch program. Adverse drug events occm in 3% of hospitalizations, and this number is larger for special populations such as those in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. 

Based on anonymous reports In the lay press. No clinical studies have been published. 

First and foremost I would OVERWHELMINGLY recommend a place or way to ANONYMOUSLY report problems with management. There is no way to speak my feelings without it being tied to me, my IP address, my social, my work number. That makes me and everyone feel that we cannot say a word. If you take something to HR it is stiU tied to your work file. 

Runciman, W. B., Merry, A., and Smith, A. M. Improving Patients Safety by Gathering Information Anonymous Reporting Has an Important Role. [http //bmj.com/cgi/... 

The company also instituted shock awareness meetings where senior management added energy to the first ten minutes of each of the three shifts by spontaneously addressing their department on a current topic requiring urgent attention. There was also a phone hotline for anonymous reporting on a safety and security matter. 

The near miss incident registry is a risk free, anonymous reporting tool for near miss incidents in internal medicine. It is sponsored by the New York State Department of Health and administered by the New York chapter of the American College of Physicians. This tool collects information about both near miss incident medical errors and the barriers that kept these errors from reaching patients. 

Appreciation for the recalling of the near miss incident should be shown to the person who has contributed by recalling the near miss incident. By acting on an anonymously reported near miss ineident indicates the sincerity of management and the efficiency of the near miss ineident recall systan. 

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