WebAIRS Anesthesia Incident Reporting System.

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WebAIRS Anesthesia Incident Reporting System.

January 1, 2009

Australian and New Zealand Tripartite Anaesthetic Data Committee.

Reporting errors in anesthesiology practice can motivate and inform safety improvement work. This website serves as a secure mechanism for submitting incident reports to a centralized system for analysis. The tool includes an instrument to share data, responses, and solutions to the reported problems back to the participating organizations.

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