Learning from excellence in healthcare: a new approach to incident reporting.

Nicola Kelly; Simon Blake; Adrian Plunkett

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Learning from excellence in healthcare: a new approach to incident reporting.

October 19, 2016

Kelly N, Blake S, Plunkett A. Arch Dis Child. 2016;101(9):788-791.

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Learning in health care can be motivated by seeing and building on the success of others. This commentary describes a program based on the concepts of Safety-II and positive deviance which led to improvements in prescribing practice in a pediatric intensive care unit.

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