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Assessment of adverse events in medical care: lack of consistency between experienced teams using the Global Trigger Tool.
Schildmeijer K, Nilsson L, Arestedt K, Perk J. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012;21:307-314.

This study found that the Global Trigger Tool had poor inter-rater reliability for both detecting adverse events and determining the severity of such events. These findings contradict the results of a prior study.
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