The New Look at Error, Safety, and Failure: A Primer for Health Care
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چکیده
However, just as recent celebrated accidents in medicine have directed attention to patient safety, previous highly visible accidents in other industries, such as power generation and transportation drew attention to issues surrounding the label “human error” (e.g., Three Mile Island in 1979; the capsizing of the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1982; various aircraft accidents). The intense interest in these accidents led to sustained, cross-disciplinary studies of the human contribution to safety and accidents.
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