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A facilitated survey instrument captures significantly more anesthesia events than does traditional voluntary event reporting.
December 12, 2007
Oken A, Rasmussen MD, Slagle JM, et al. Anesthesiology. 2007;107(6):909-922.
This study describes the development of an open-ended survey tool administered to anesthesia providers at the conclusion of surgical cases, with the goal of contemporaneously identifying adverse events. The tool identified a broader array of adverse events and near misses than the traditional incident reporting system.
