Patient safety remains a cornerstone of effective healthcare delivery, with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) emerging as a vital process for understanding and preventing adverse events. RCA is a systematic ...

At an Huntsman Cancer Institute Clinic, providers are often delayed in how soon they see a patient during a new visit appointment. Typical delays (wait time) from check-in to provider page was 20 ...

A free guide on conducting root causes analyses is available from the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Patient Safety. The tools include guides for developing a chronological event ...

The Joint Commission has determined the 10 most common causes of sentinel events reported in the first six months of 2013. An organization reporting a sentinel event submits a root cause analysis to ...