Table 1 Frequency of main purpose of included studies

Attitudes towards, barriers to, experience in, facilitators to and/or perceptions of adverse event, error and incident reporting

15 [15,18,20,22,23,26-29,31,32,35,37,38,42]

Description of causes and health consequences and/or effectiveness of prevention strategies for adverse events

3 [19,21,44]

Hospital staff’s attitude towards, knowledge of and/or behaviour in medical errors

2 [36,43]

Perception of patient safety culture among hospital staff

2 [39,40]

Error recovery strategies by healthcare providers

2 [16,34]

Impact of incident reporting system in surgery

1 [24]

Perceived effectiveness of incident reporting in mental health and acute care hospitals

1 [25]

Effectiveness of real and potential medical errors on healthcare providers

1 [17]

Effectiveness of improvement incident reporting strategies

1 [30]