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Retrospective data collection and analytical techniques for patient safety studies
2003
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
To enhance patient safety, data about actual clinical events must be collected and scrutinized. This paper has two purposes. First, it provides an overview of some of the methods available to collect and analyze retrospective data about medical errors, near misses, and other relevant patient safety events. Second, it introduces a methodological approach that focuses on non-routine events (NRE), defined as all events that deviate from optimal clinical care. In intermittent in-person surveys of
doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2003.08.002
pmid:14552852
fatcat:tgjax7x4rrakxn6e3kkicxegqm