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What patient safety process is a systematic goal directed process that uncovers the underlying factors that have contributed to a sentinel event?
  1. Root Cause Analysis
  2. Critical thinking
  3. Valence Analysis
  4. Contributory cause
Explanation
Answer: A - The patient safety process that is a systematic goal directed process that uncovers the underlying factors that have contributed to a sentinel event is Root Cause Analysis, or Fault Tree Analysis. This process is followed by groups who want to find out why a process failed. The ultimate purpose of Root Cause Analysis is to identify what changes can be made to processes and systems in order to prevent a recurrence of this sentinel event.

Category: Performance improvement - Patient safety
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