Creating an infrastructure for safety event reporting and analysis in a multicenter pediatric emergency department network.

James M Chamberlain; Kathy N Shaw; Kathleen A Lillis; Prashant Mahajan; Richard M Ruddy; Richard Lichenstein; Cody S Olsen; Michael Dean; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network

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Creating an infrastructure for safety event reporting and analysis in a multicenter pediatric emergency department network.

April 3, 2013

Chamberlain JM, Shaw KN, Lillis KA, et al. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2013;29(2):125-30.

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Detailing how 22 pediatric emergency departments developed a process for sharing incident reports, this study describes the barriers that had to be overcome and the initial lessons learned from the project.

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