A quantitative approach to clinical risk assessment: the CREA method.

Paolo Trucco; Michela Cavallin

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A quantitative approach to clinical risk assessment: the CREA method.

July 19, 2006

Trucco P, Cavallin M. Saf Sci. 2006;44(6).

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The authors describe a clinical risk assessment method called clinical risk and error analysis (CREA)—a prospective and retrospective tool that integrates expert opinion and data analysis into error identification and reduction.

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