A String of Mistakes: The Importance of Cascade Analysis in Describing, Counting, and Preventing Medical Errors
Open Access
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (4), 317-326
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.126
Abstract
BACKGROUND Notions about the most common errors in medicine currently rest on conjecture and weak epidemiologic evidence. We sought to determine whether cascade analysis is of value in clarifying the epidemiology and causes of errors and whether physician reports are sensitive to the impact of errors on patients.Keywords
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