Errors, incidents and accidents in anaesthetic practice : The Australian incident monitoring
study CNRS Inist Pascal-Francis CNRS Pascal and Francis Bibliographic Databases …

The Australian Patient Safety Foundation was formed in 1987; it was decided to set up and
co-ordinate the Australian Incident Monitoring Study as a function of this Foundation; 90 …

The study had its beginning the previous year at a conference on'Monitoring in
Anaesthesia'when a group of concerned anaesthetists resolved to study'critical incidents' …

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 …

Patient safety is the avoidance, prevention, amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries
stemming from the processes of health care. However, one can only manage what one can …

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 …

A postal survey of anaesthetists practising in New Zealand assessed their practice and
attitudes to anaesthetic incident reporting. 136 replies were received (57% response rate) …

Conclusion: Un certain nombre de facteurs sont responsables du peu de notification des
incidents critiques. Il faut des efforts supplémentaires pour encourager la notification. HERE …

Although adverse events in medical practice are not a new phenomenon, their impact on the
care of patients in our hospitals is becoming, increasingly, a source of public concern …

The rôle of an anaesthetic incident reporting programme in improving anaesthetic safety
was studied. The programme had been running for 4 to 5 years in three large hospitals in …