RT Book, Section A1 Wachter, Robert M. A1 Gupta, Kiran SR Print(0) ID 1146176015 T1 Reporting Systems, Root Cause Analysis, and Other Methods of Understanding Safety Issues T2 Understanding Patient Safety, 3e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259860249 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146176015 RD 2024/04/24 AB In the late 1990s, as patients, reporters, and legislators began to appreciate the scope of the medical errors problem, the response was nearly Pavlovian: we need more reporting! This commonsensical appeal had roots in several places, including the knowledge that transparency often drives change, the positive experiences with reporting in the commercial aviation industry,1 the desire by many interested parties (patients, legislators, the media, healthcare leaders) to understand the dimensions of the safety problem, and the need of individual healthcare organizations to know which problems to work on.