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Error reduction in trauma care: lessons from an anonymized, national, multicenter mortality reporting system.
March 23, 2022
Hamad DM, Mandell SP, Stewart RM, et al. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2022;92(3):473-480.
By analyzing errors that lead to preventable or potentially preventable deaths in trauma care, healthcare organizations can develop mitigation strategies to prevent those errors from reoccurring. This study classified events anonymously reported by trauma centers using the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Patient Safety Event Taxonomy. Mitigation strategies were most often low-level, person-focused (e.g., education and training).
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