Journal calls for use of objective data in root cause analyses of adverse medical events

(George Mason University) Quality Management in Healthcare calls for reliance on objective data to introduce new insights on why adverse sentinel events such as medication errors keep occurring. It will no longer publish analysis that solely relies on opinions of clinicians to identify the causes of adverse events. It calls for hospital risk analysts and managers to analyze objective data and increase the use of causal networks to improve the objectivity and rigor in understanding error root cau...