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No more blame & shame: developing event-reporting systems may go a long way to reducing patient care errors in EMS.
Rajasekaran K, Fairbanks RJ, Shah MN. EMS Magazine. September 2008.

This article describes how applying a just culture and systems approach to adverse events may help change the "blame-and-shame" mentality in emergency medical service provision.
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