Background Root cause analyses (RCA) are often completed in health care settings to
determine causes of adverse events (AEs). RCAs result in action plans designed to mitigate …

In recent years, the healthcare sector has adopted the use of operational risk assessment
tools to help understand the systems issues that lead to patient safety incidents. But …

Background: Although intravenous patient-controlled analgesia opioids and epidural
analgesia offer improved analgesia for postoperative patients treated on an acute pain …

Recent debate over healthcare and its spiraling costs has brought medical error into the
spotlight as an indicator of everything that is ineffective, inhumane, and wasteful about …

Background Root cause analysis (RCA) is a systematic approach, typically involving several
stages, used in healthcare to identify the underlying causes of a medical error or sentinel …

The conversation related to patient safety has gained currency in the last decade and
incident investigation processes have been implemented by health care organizations …

Background and Objectives: Ensuring the sustainability of healthcare facilities requires the
evaluation of patient matters with appropriate methods and tools. The objective of this …

The effective use of the Six Sigma problem-solving methodology is strongly influenced by
the efficacy of the Root Cause Analysis tools, the tools used for performing the Analyze …

Introduction: Adverse events (AE) in care are recognized as a leading cause of mortality and
injury in patients. Improving patientsL safety is difficult to achieve. Therefore, innovative …

Objectives To explore how mandatory reporting to the supervisory authority of suicides
among recipients of healthcare services has influenced associated investigations conducted …