Patient safety's missing link: using clinical expertise to recognize, respond to and reduce risks at a population level. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Patient safety's missing link: using clinical expertise to recognize, respond to and reduce risks at a population level. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published November 2015

Patient safety's missing link: using clinical expertise to recognize, respond to and reduce risks at a population level.

Hibbert PD, Healey F, Lamont T, Marela WM, Warner B, Runciman WB. Int J Qual Health Care. 2015 Nov 16; [Epub ahead of print].

Incident reporting systems have been widely implemented throughout health care, but mechanisms to respond to reports have received little attention. This commentary provides a framework to use incident reporting to identify, analyze, and address risks.

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