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1119 culture has long suffered from what James Reason dubbed the illusion of “trained …

Because close calls, often termed near misses, don't raise the same concerns about
malpractice liability and may be less emotionally charged than errors that cause serious …

Objectives: To investigate the ability of health care providers to correctly identify close calls
and errors and to examine the role of close call and error definitions on such identification …

Background This chapter examines reporting of health care errors (eg, verbal, written, or
other form of communication and/or recording of near miss and patient safety events that …

IN hospitals and healthcare systems,“near miss” tracking is one type of data that is
challenging to capture although it may be one of the most crucial areas to study. Identifying …

Purpose: Near-miss events represent an opportunity to identify and correct errors that
jeopardize patient safety. This study was undertaken to assess the feasibility of a near-miss …

Medical errors are a serious public health problem and a leading cause of death in the
United States. It is a difficult problem as it is challenging to uncover a consistent cause of …

The 26,000 close call reports collected through The University of Texas Close Call
Reporting System (UTCCRS)—funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality …

when things go wrong—is increasingly considered necessary to improving the quality of
health care. By being candid with both patients and clinicians, health care organizations can …

Thousands of Americans die each years as a result of medical errors. These errors lead to
increased economic costs and dissatisfaction among patients and healthcare providers …