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Thematic reviews of patient safety incidents as a tool for systems thinking: a quality improvement report.

Machen S. Thematic reviews of patient safety incidents as a tool for systems thinking: a quality improvement report. BMJ Open Qual. 2023;12(2):e002020. doi:10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002020.

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May 17, 2023
Machen S. BMJ Open Qual. 2023;12(2):e002020.
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Learning from patient safety incidents can help health care organizations improve processes and care delivery. This article provides a template for organizations to review patient safety incidents and classify them into themes from a human factors and systems thinking perspective. The process involves clearly characterizing the safety incidents, describing the involved safety systems, identifying and classifying contributing factors, completion of narrative analysis to identify commonalities and differences in the way contributing factors affect the incidents, and identification of safety recommendations. 

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Machen S. Thematic reviews of patient safety incidents as a tool for systems thinking: a quality improvement report. BMJ Open Qual. 2023;12(2):e002020. doi:10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002020.