Beyond root cause analysis: An enriched system oriented event analysis model for wide application

Systems Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 427-438

  Chuang, Sheuwen ^a   Howley, Peter P ^b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

incident reporting; patient safety; root cause analysis; system oriented event analysis; systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EVENT ANALYSIS; INCIDENT REPORTING; PATIENT SAFETY; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS THINKING;

SYSTEM THEORY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84886018632     PISSN: 10981241     EISSN: 15206858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sys.21246     Document Type: Article

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