Factors that influence the recognition, reporting and resolution of incidents related to medical devices and other healthcare technologies: a systematic review

Table 3 Factors influencing the recognition, reporting and resolution of medical device-related incidents

Factor	First number of studies
Recognition
Health technology features	1 study [29]
Reporting
Personal attitudes of healthcare professionals	16 studies [16,22-24,28-30,32-36,38,39,41,43]
Organizational culture	4 studies [17,21,40,41]
Awareness of incident reporting system	6 studies [17,19,22,27,33,44]
Perception of incident reporting system	5 studies [16,17,21,27,33]
Incentives to incident reporting	2 studies [34,43]
Feedback to healthcare professionals	2 studies [33,41]
Resolution
None of the studies reported on the resolution of medical device-related incidents

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