Stopping the error cascade: a report on ameliorators from the ASIPS collaborative.

Bennett Parnes; Douglas Fernald; Javán Quintela; Rodrigo Araya-Guerra; John M Westfall; Daniel Harris; Wilson D Pace

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Stopping the error cascade: a report on ameliorators from the ASIPS collaborative.

March 7, 2007

Parnes B, Fernald D, Quintela J, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16(1):12-6.

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The investigators qualitatively analyzed error reports from the primary care setting in which an error had been caught before it caused patient harm.

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