A monthly compliance review on patient morbidity and mortality can help increase adverse event reporting in interventional radiology departments, a study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology found.
In 2010, the researchers implemented a structured monthly conference review confirming whether each patient complication warranted an adverse event report and whether physicians reported these events in a timely manner. The research team then retrospectively analyzed the conference minutes over the next five years.
The study included 46,660 patient encounters, 1,160 (2.5 percent) major and minor complications, and 462 (1.0 percent) reportable adverse events.
The percentage of adverse events reported increased from 67 percent to 98 percent from 2011 to 2015. The researchers found the number of months from the start of the conference review was a significant predictor of the likelihood of adverse event reporting.
"Increasing [adverse event] reporting occurred after initiation of a [monthly conference compliance review]," the researchers concluded.