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After a period of intense focus on efforts to improve the cost efficiency of health care, there is a sense of rising urgency about identifying and improving the associated levels of the quality of care. A widely acknowledged indicator of quality is the occurrence of adverse, sentinel, events during care. The step toward reducing the risk of such events is to understand sometimes about their causes and the variation in their occurrence.
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Wan, T.T.H., Connell, A.M. (2003). Identifying the Root Causes or Patterns of Adverse Health Events: Statistical Methods. In: Monitoring the Quality of Health Care. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1097-0_16
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