Iranian Journal of Pathology

Root Cause and Error Analysis

Document Type : Review Article

Abstract
Error is an inevitable part of life and cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be minimized. A root cause analysis is a technique for understanding the systematic error causes that is involved beyond a person or people to implement an errors and including field and environmental causes of errors when occur in this situation too. An important factor of an error occurrence is a root cause (causes) in causal factors that its revision or removing caused to prevent the recursion of a situation such as an error when is occurring in a process.The process of root cause analysis is consist of six steps: the beginning of the process, Data collection and mapping information, Identifying the problems, Analyzing Information, Solution Providing, Implementing the solutions (action plans),Writing the report.

Keywords

Root Cause Analysis
Diagnostic Error
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  • Receive Date 13 March 2013
  • Accept Date 11 April 2014

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