Developing agreement on never events in primary care dentistry: an international eDelphi study. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Developing agreement on never events in primary care dentistry: an international eDelphi study. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published May 2018

Developing agreement on never events in primary care dentistry: an international eDelphi study.

Ensaldo-Carrasco E, Carson-Stevens A, Cresswell K, Bedi R, Sheikh A. Br Dent J. 2018;224:733-740.

This Delphi study aimed to identify expert consensus on never events in dentistry. The resulting list of 23 events includes medication errors, retained objects, and wrong patient and wrong procedure events across diagnostic and treatment activities and is consistent with existing never events in medicine.

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