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Near-miss events are really missed! Reflections on incident reporting in a department of pediatric surgery.
Mattioli G, Guida E, Montobbio G, et al. Pediatr Surg Int. 2012;28:405-410.

Analysis of data from a voluntary incident reporting system found that very few near misses were officially reported.
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