How to investigate and analyse clinical incidents: Clinical Risk Unit and Association of Litigation and Risk Management protocol
BMJPublished 18 March 2000Open access
Charles Vincent
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A protocol for the investigation and analysis of serious incidents for use by risk managers and others trained in incident analysis is produced, which reduces the chance of simplistic explanations and routine assignment of blame.
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