Supplementary materialB: General characteristics of the national reporting programmes

Journal name: Drug Safety

Title: Relevance of foreign alerts and newsletters for the medication errors reporting programme in The Netherlands: An explorative retrospective study

Authors: Ka-Chun Cheung (1,2); Patricia M L A van den Bemt (3); Marcel L Bouvy (4); Michel Wensing (1); Peter A G M De Smet (1,2,5)

Author’s affiliations:

1: Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2: Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association (KNMP), Den Haag, The Netherlands

3: Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

4: Department of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for

Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

5: Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

General characteristics of the national reporting programmes

Country / US / Canada / UK / Netherlands
Name of reporting system / ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Programme / Canadian Medication Incident Reporting and Prevention System / National Reporting and Learning System, NRLS / Central Medication Incidents Registration, CMR
Year of the development / 1975 / 1999 / 2005 / 2006
Organisation / Independent organisation / Independent organisation / Government / Independent organisation
Other types of incidents the system collects
(beside medication incidents) / Device errors
Hazardous condition / Only medication incidents / All types of incidents / Only medication incidents
Voluntary to report to the system / ● / ● / ● / ●
Share information with government authorities / ● / ● / ●
Types of care organisations that could report
Ambulance service / ● / ●
Community pharmacy / ● / ● / ● / ●
Community optometry / optician service / ●
Dental service / ●
General practice / ● / ● / ●
Hospital / ● / ● / ● / ●
Mental health care / ● / ● / ● / ●
Patients, relatives, cares / ● / ● / ●
Public / ● / ●
Residential / home / ● / ●
Type of sharing information
Alert / ● / ● / ● / ●
Annual report / ●
Guidelines / ● / ●
“High-alert” Tall-Man Lettering List / ●
List of ‘look-alike/sound-alike’-medicines / ●
Newsletter / ●* / ● / ●
Medium for sharing information
Conferences / meetings / ● / ●
Email / ● / ● / ● / ●
Post / ●
Website / ● / ● / ● / ●
Social media / ● / ●
Frequencies of output
Alert / Ad hoc / Ad hoc / Ad hoc / Ad hoc
Annual report / Yearly
Conference / Ad hoc
Guidelines / Ad hoc / Ad hoc
“High-alert” Tall-Man Lettering List / Ad hoc
List of ‘look-alike/sound-alike’-medicines / Ad hoc
Newsletter / Biweekly * / Monthly / Quarterly
Workshops / Monthly
* ISMP USA has five types of newsletters: Acute care (biweekly), community care (monthly), nurse advise (monthly), long-term care (half yearly), and consumer (bimonthly).
US = United States
UK = United Kingdom
NRLS = National Reporting and Learning System
CMR = Central Medication Incidents Registration