The frustrating case of incident-reporting systems.

Kaveh G. Shojania

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The frustrating case of incident-reporting systems.

May 20, 2009

Shojania KG. Qual Saf Health Care. 2008;17(6):400-2.

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This commentary discusses the limitations of incident reporting systems and provides suggestions for how data gathered from incident reports may be used to improve safety.

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