Although 70–80% of problems have some component of human error, its overall contribution
to many problems may be small; studies of complex systems have revealed that up to 85 …

Information of relevance to human failure was extracted from the first 2,000 incidents
reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS). All reports were searched for …

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 …

A modified critical-incident analysis technique was used in a retrospective examination of
the characteristics of human error and equipment failure in anesthetic practice. The objective …

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 …

The critical incident technique was introduced as an additional form of quality assurance to
an anaesthetic department of a major Hong Kong teaching hospital. In one year, 125 critical …

This prospective, observational, anonymous incident reporting study aimed to identify and
correct factors leading to reduced patient safety in intensive care. An incident was any event …

Risk management in the medical domain and medical accidents in particular are receiving
growing interest from researchers in industrial engineering and management science …

Critical incident monitoring has the advantage of identifying a potential risk to the patient
without it necessarily resulting in morbidity. An added advantage in developing countries is …

INTRODUCTION: We aimed to reduce mortality and morbidity in anaesthesia by identifying
common factors contributing to critical incidences and'near misses'. MATERIALS AND …