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Informing the design of a new pragmatic registry to stimulate near miss reporting in ambulatory care.
March 15, 2017
Pfoh ER, Engineer L, Singh H, et al. J Patient Saf. 2021;17(3):e121-e127.
Patient safety in ambulatory care is emerging as an area of focus for safety improvement. This review discusses the importance of using near misses as a learning opportunity in outpatient care. The authors describe the design of a near miss registry to collect information on factors that contribute to errors as a way to enable learning and improvement.
