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Patient safety part three
Introduction
The Swiss cheese model of accident causation
Active or latent failure
Avoiding blame
Root cause analysis
Significant event audit
Introduction
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Introduction
As outlined in module 2, it is important for healthcare professionals to learn from mistakes and things that go wrong. As well as reporting incidents, it can be useful to understand and investigate what caused them.
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