FTO5/470: Critical Incident Monitoring in Emergency Medicine Web-based System (CRIME-base): Current evidence on incident reporting and its impact to quality of care

IntroductionA critical incident is "any event which is inconsistent with routine hospital practice or with the quality of patient care and which has or could have had a demonstrably adverse outcome for a particular patient" (J.A.Williamson, Critical Incident Reporting in Anaesthesia.Anaesthetic Intensive Care, 1988: 16: 101-103).Such "negative inci

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