Application of an aviation model of incident reporting and investigation to the neurosurgical scenario: Method and preliminary data

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ferroli, Paolo ^a   Caldiroli, Dario ^a   Acerbi, Francesco ^a   Scholtze, Maurizio ^b   Piro, Alfonso ^b   Schiariti, Marco ^a   Orena, Eleonora F ^a   Castiglione, Melina ^a   Broggi, Morgan ^a   Perin, Alessandro ^a   Dimeco, Francesco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b Aviationlab   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human factor; Incident; Near miss; Neurosurgery; Reporting system; Safety

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AVIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871444539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.9.FOCUS12252     Document Type: Article

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