Canadian Anesthesia Incident Reporting System.

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Canadian Anesthesia Incident Reporting System.

June 13, 2018

Canadian Anaesthesiologists Society.

Reporting mistakes in anesthesiology practice can motivate and inform error reduction work. This website provides a secure tool for submitting incident reports to a centralized system for analysis and evaluation in Canada. The tool includes a mechanism to share data, responses, and solutions to the reported problems back to the participating organizations.

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