AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Adverse events and comparison of systematic and voluntary reporting from a paediatric intensive care unit.

Silas R, Tibballs J. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19:568-571.

This Australian study found that voluntary error reporting and systematic, contemporaneous error detection by trained clinicians each found a different subset of errors. However, neither method alone accurately identified all errors during the study period.

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