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Pointing fingers: verbosity of patient safety narratives is associated with attribution of blame.
December 8, 2021
Ackerman RS, Patel SY, Costache M, et al. Anesthesiology News. November 21, 2021.
Blame is known to limit discussions of near-misses and failures, which negatively impacts learning and incident reduction. This article describes work to examine blameful context present in anesthesiology incident documentation, reducing its viability as a successful investigation record. Length of text was identified as an enabler of blameful orientation, and limitations as to word count were one strategy to minimize the use of punitive language.
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