E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?
Many organisations rely on their root cause analyses (RCA) to help learn about incidents, and, ideally, prevent incident reoccurrences.
So the logic goes. But does the published evidence support RCA approaches as effective means for preventing incident reoccurrences?
Today's paper is Martin-Delgado, J., Martínez-García, A., Aranaz, J. M., Valencia-Martín, J. L., & Mira, J. J. (2020). How much of root cause analysis translates into improved patient safety: a systematic review. Medical Principles and Practice, 29(6), 524-531.
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