Population
2000 incident reports submitted to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study related to anaesthetic practice
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System factors drive most anaesthetic incidents; supports safety interventions but leaves open their prospective impact on outcomes.
Analysis of 2000 anaesthetic incident reports reveals that system-based deficiencies and human factors are implicated in 90% of incidents, emphasizing the need for system-level interventions to improve patient safety.
Runciman et al. (1993) studied this question.
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