Development of minimum data set and dashboard for monitoring adverse events in radiology departments.

Background: To reduce the risk of errors, patient safety monitoring in the medical imaging department is crucial. Interventions are required and these can be provided as a framework for documenting, reporting, evaluating, and recognizing events that pose a threat to patient safety. The aim of this study was to develop minimum data set and dashboard for monitoring adverse events in radiology departments. Material and methods: This developmental research was conducted in multiple phases, including content determination using the Delphi technique; database designing using SQL Server; user interface (UI) building using PHP; and dashboard evaluation in three aspects: the accuracy of calculating; UI requirements; and usability. Results: This study identified 26 patient safety (PS) performance metrics and 110 PS-related significant data components organized into 14 major groupings as the system contents. The UI was built with three tabs: pre-procedure, intra-procedure, and post-procedure. The evaluation results proved the technical feasibility of the dashboard. Finally, the dashboard's usability was highly rated (76.3 out of 100). Conclusion: The dashboard can be used to supplement datasets to obtain a more accurate picture of the PS condition and to draw attention to characteristics that professionals might otherwise overlook or undervalue.

Enhancing Patient Safety Using Medical Imaging Informatics.

A set of performance indicators and metrics related to patient safety that classifies and measures mistakes can prevent errors in medical imaging. The potential of harm in this department is high since it is a complicated environ- ment in terms of diversity of services, patient mix, personnel, equipment, tech- nology, and information. In such an environment, it is necessary to define aframeworkto identify safety inci- dents, analyze them, provide solutions for preventing them, and give feedback on the results. Using medical imaging informatics can be effective in monitor- ing these indicators. Benefits such as reducing radiation expo- sure and reducing medication errors and adverse effects can be achieved. It can also promote knowledge through acces- sibility of resources and useful informa- tion in order to optimize decision making.