Nature of Blame in Patient Safety Incident Reports: Mixed Methods Analysis of a National Database

Jennifer Cooper; Adrian Edwards; Huw Williams; Aziz Sheikh; Gareth Parry; Peter Hibbert; Amy Butlin; Liam Donaldson; Andrew Carson-Stevens

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Nature of Blame in Patient Safety Incident Reports: Mixed Methods Analysis of a National Database

Jennifer Cooper, Adrian Edwards, Huw Williams, Aziz Sheikh, Gareth Parry, Peter Hibbert, Amy Butlin, Liam Donaldson and Andrew Carson-Stevens

The Annals of Family Medicine September 2017, 15 (5) 455-461; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2123

Jennifer Cooper

1Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

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Adrian Edwards

2Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

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Huw Williams

1Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

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Aziz Sheikh

3Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

4Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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Gareth Parry

4Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

5Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Peter Hibbert

6Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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Amy Butlin

1Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

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Liam Donaldson

7London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Group, London, United Kingdom

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Andrew Carson-Stevens

1Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

6Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

8Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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For correspondence: carson-stevensap@cardiff.ac.uk

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Jennifer Cooper, Adrian Edwards, Huw Williams, Aziz Sheikh, Gareth Parry, Peter Hibbert, Amy Butlin, Liam Donaldson, Andrew Carson-Stevens

The Annals of Family Medicine Sep 2017, 15 (5) 455-461; DOI: 10.1370/afm.2123

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The Annals of Family Medicine Sep 2017, 15 (5) 455-461; DOI: 10.1370/afm.2123

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