Quality review of an adverse incident reporting system and root cause analysis of serious adverse surgical incidents in a teaching hospital of Scotland

Quality review of an adverse incident reporting system and root cause analysis of serious adverse surgical incidents in a teaching hospital of Scotland

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>A significant proportion of surgical patients are unintentionally harmed during their hospital stay. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) aims to determine the aetiology of adverse incidents that lead to patient harm and produce a series of rec...

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Main Authors: Khorsandi Maziar, Skouras Christos, Beatson Kevin, Alijani Afshin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-08-01
Series:Patient Safety in Surgery
Subjects:
Risk management
Harm reduction
Root cause analysis
Incident reporting
Adverse incidents
Online Access:http://www.pssjournal.com/content/6/1/21

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