The problem with incident reporting¶
Macrae, C. (2016). The problem with incident reporting. BMJ Quality & Safety, 25(2), 71-75.
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Mechanisms¶
- Pragmatic Breakdown Log
- Its failure mode is survivorship bias: the log only ever sees the breakdowns that got reported, and the readers who quietly misunderstood and walked away — often the most important failures — never enter it, so the ledger can look healthy while silent misreading runs rampant.
This sourceHighlights that incident-reporting systems observe a biased subset consisting of events that are actually reported.
- Its failure mode is survivorship bias: the log only ever sees the breakdowns that got reported, and the readers who quietly misunderstood and walked away — often the most important failures — never enter it, so the ledger can look healthy while silent misreading runs rampant.
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