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, CAS...

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Main Authors: Samost, Aubrey (Author), Dekker, Sidney (Author), Finkelstein, Stan (Author), Raman, Jai (Author), Leveson, Nancy G (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Contributor), Leveson, Nancy G. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer) - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2018-05-14T18:59:04Z.
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