Barriers to incident notification in a regional prehospital setting.

P. A. Jennings; J. Stella

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Barriers to incident notification in a regional prehospital setting.

July 28, 2010

Jennings PA, Stella J. Emerg Med J. 2011;28(6):526-9.

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This study found several barriers to reporting events in the prehospital setting, many of which reflected the culture of safety that exists around a shame and blame approach.

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