No more blame & shame: developing event-reporting systems may go a long way to reducing patient care errors in EMS.

Karthik Rajasekaran; Rollin J Fairbanks; Manish Shah

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No more blame & shame: developing event-reporting systems may go a long way to reducing patient care errors in EMS.

October 1, 2008

Rajasekaran K, Fairbanks RJ, Shah M. EMS magazine. 2008;37(9):61-7.

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This article describes how applying a just culture and systems approach to adverse events may help change the "blame-and-shame" mentality in emergency medical service provision.

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