A Systems Approach to Analyzing and Preventing Hospital Adverse Events

Objective: This study aimed to demonstrate the use of a systems theory-based accident analysis technique in health care applications as a more powerful alternative to the chain-of-event accident models currently underpinning root cause analysis methods. Method: A new accident analysis technique,...

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Main Authors: Samost, Aubrey, Dekker, Sidney, Finkelstein, Stan, Raman, Jai, Leveson, Nancy G
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115366
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6294-8890