Learning from disasters to improve patient safety: applying the generic disaster pathway to health system errors.

Joanne Travaglia; Clifford Hughes; Jeffrey Braithwaite

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Learning from disasters to improve patient safety: applying the generic disaster pathway to health system errors.

June 8, 2011

Travaglia J, Hughes C, Braithwaite J. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20(1):1-8.

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This commentary assesses the validity of a disaster pathway model as a diagnostic tool to identify human factors that contribute to errors.

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