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A review of medical error taxonomies: a human factors perspective.
June 29, 2011
Taib IA, McIntosh AS, Caponecchia C, et al. Saf Sci. 2011;49(5).
This review compared 26 medical error taxonomies using a human factors perspective and demonstrated that each taxonomy provides different information. The authors highlight the importance of taxonomies that use knowledge of cognitive mechanisms and theoretical error concepts to classify causal mechanisms of errors.
