Fault trees uncover complex causes.

Patrice Spath

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Fault trees uncover complex causes.

August 26, 2011

Spath P. Hospital peer review. 2007;32(4):49-52.

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This article discusses the use of a fault tree diagram to identify root causes of an incident within complex system relationships.

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