In this qualitative study using observation and interviews, 10 anaesthetists from five
Departments of Anaesthesia in the North‐West region of England were enlisted to …

Anaesthetists are proud of their reputation for safety and can point to initiatives in
engineering, training and practice guidelines to support it [1]. Many of these advances have …

Voluntary, anonymous reporting of incidents which occur during anaesthesia is a
mechanism for obtaining information about such problems. Our objective was to estimate the …

One of the key features of the patient safety 'movement'is the belief that safety can be
improved by learning from incidents and near misses, rather than pretending they have not …

Editor—We were interested to read the article of Professor Mahajan and concur with his
view that safety can be improved by learning from incidents and near misses. 1 Furthermore …

Objective. To assess the reporting of critical incidents by anaesthetic trainees using personal
digital assistants. The project also identified the reporting of 'near miss' incidents by …

To date there have been fewer than a dozen studies on the nature of, and contributory
factors in, critical incidents (CI) in anaesthesia. The first of these, by Cooper and colleagues …

Accepting that the key method of reducing error occurrence is by analysis of the causal
features of reported episodes, there must be a cultural shift in the way we collect information …

Incident reporting is a central strategy for improving safety in the NHS (UK National Health
Service). In this paper we discuss incident reporting in anaesthesia. We discuss four …

Background. This study aimed to explore how critical and acceptable practice are defined in
anaesthesia and how this influences the discussion and reporting of adverse incidents …