Near Miss in NORA Systematic Review
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Khan, Raina; O'Connor, Morgan; Leung, Jacqueline
- Source
- Subject
- Anesthesiology
Offsite Anesthesia
Medicine and Health Sciences
Medical Specialties
Anesthesia
Adverse Events
Near Miss Events
NORA
- Language
Adverse events that result in patient harm are required to be reported to institutional quality improvement committees (QIC), whereas near miss (NM) events are often not well captured. Near miss events represent an opportunity to identify and correct errors that jeopardize patient safety. Since no prior study has focused on identifying risk factors for evaluating NM events in NORA locations, we conducted an extensive literature search in order to determine the incidence and types of NM events in NORA, in addition to identifying gaps of knowledge