Root Cause Analysis.Overview

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Like its popular predecessors, the book supplies a complete overview of hazard control, safety management, compliance, standards, and accreditation in the healthcare industry. This edition includes new information on leadership, performance improvement, risk management, organizational culture, behavioral safety, root cause analysis, and recent OSHA and Joint Commission Emergency Management requirements and regulatory changes. 

To be effective the investigation must apply an approach which is based on basic incident causation theories and use tested data analysis techniques. Investigating incidents to determine root causes and make recommendations can be as much an art as a science. Within the industry, best practices in incident investigation have evolved substantially in the last 20 years. This chapter provides a brief overview of some of the more relevant causation theories. 

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