Patient safety's missing link: using clinical expertise to recognize, respond to and reduce risks at a population level.

Peter D. Hibbert; Frances Healey; Tara Lamont; William M. Marela; Bruce Warner; William B. Runciman

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Patient safety's missing link: using clinical expertise to recognize, respond to and reduce risks at a population level.

November 25, 2015

Hibbert PD, Healey F, Lamont T, et al. Int J Qual Health Care. 2016;28(1):114-21.

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Incident reporting systems have been widely implemented throughout health care, but mechanisms to respond to reports have received little attention. This commentary provides a framework to use incident reporting to identify, analyze, and address risks.

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