… events and near misses that would otherwise go unrecognized. Although few serious adverse
events … the ED in order to glean information about adverse events, errors and near misses. …

… to share information, learn from errors, and trend error types. This approach provides
opportunities to study not only serious reportable events but also near-misses. The National Quality …

… to the reporting of a near-miss event. The manager decides … a priori that the reporting of a
near-miss event will reduce the … appropriate handling) of near-miss events has the potential to …

… A variety of incidents including adverse events, near misses, and medical errors may be …
about healthcare errors, and error management practices. In conclusion, near misses and no …

… Near-miss events, or errors that are corrected before a patient is harmed, represent … near-miss
events could markedly improve overall patient safety. Others have demonstrated that error…

… types of minor and major events, near misses, or critical incidents … to identify the minor and
major events that occur in cardiac … compensation of errors and recovery from near misses. The …

… Future research that might address these barriers includes educational programs to address
the importance of recognizing and characterizing errors, adverse events, and near misses, …

… were five times more frequent than actual transfusion errors, and 68 percent of errors were
… of near-miss events will help institutions predict the distribution of serious errors and guide …

… taken after error detection. We put forward two possible definitions of near misses and argue
that… Both proposed definitions could yield large-scale reporting of near misses. Subsequent …

… Several methods have been developed to define and classify medical errors, adverse events,
near misses, and other patient safety concepts and terms [9,10]. However, these methods …