Near-miss events are really missed! Reflections on incident reporting in a department of pediatric surgery.

Girolamo Mattioli; Edoardo Guida; Giovanni Montobbio; Alessio Pini Prato; Marcello Carlucci; Armando Cama; Silvio Boero; Maria Beatrice Michelis; Elio Castagnola; Ubaldo Rosati; Vincenzo Jasonni

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Near-miss events are really missed! Reflections on incident reporting in a department of pediatric surgery.

May 9, 2012

Mattioli G, Guida E, Montobbio G, et al. Pediatr Surg Int. 2012;28(4):405-10.

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Analysis of data from a voluntary incident reporting system found that very few near misses were officially reported.

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