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Training health care professionals in root cause analysis: a cross-sectional study of post-training experiences, benefits and attitudes

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, February 2013
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Title
Training health care professionals in root cause analysis: a cross-sectional study of post-training experiences, benefits and attitudes
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, February 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-13-50
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Authors

Paul Bowie, Joe Skinner, Carl de Wet

Abstract

Root cause analysis (RCA) originated in the manufacturing engineering sector but has been adapted for routine use in healthcare to investigate patient safety incidents and facilitate organizational learning. Despite the limitations of the RCA evidence base, healthcare authorities and decision makers in NHS Scotland - similar to those internationally - have invested heavily in developing training programmes to build local capacity and capability, and this is a cornerstone of many organizational policies for investigating safety-critical issues. However, to our knowledge there has been no systematic attempt to follow-up and evaluate post-training experiences of RCA-trained staff in Scotland. Given the significant investment in people, time and funding we aimed to capture and learn from the reported experiences, benefits and attitudes of RCA-trained staff and the perceived impact on healthcare systems and safety.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Malaysia 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 176 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 30 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 8%
Student > Bachelor 15 8%
Other 13 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 7%
Other 43 24%
Unknown 49 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 15%
Social Sciences 15 8%
Psychology 12 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Other 23 13%
Unknown 55 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 May 2014.
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#5,065,313
of 24,558,777 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,429
of 8,298 outputs
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#52,654
of 292,401 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#24
of 101 outputs
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