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Jul 30, 2025 8 min

E15: Root Cause Analyses (RCA) and incident prevention: do they work?

from Safe As Podcast Hosted by Ben Hutchinson

Many organisations rely on their root cause analyses (RCA) to help learn about incidents, and, ideally, prevent incident reoccurrences. So the logic goes. But does the published evidence support RCA approaches as effective means for preventing incident reoccurrences? Today's paper is Martin-Delgado, J., Martínez-García, A., Aranaz, J. M., Valencia-Martín, J. L., & Mira, J. J. (2020). How much of root cause analysis translates into improved patient safety: a systematic review. Medical Principles and Practice, 29(6), 524-531. Feel free to shout me a coffee to support my site &podcasts: https://buymeacoffee.com/benhutchinson More research at SafetyInsights.Org Intro/Output "Dark Synth Wave" by ElephantGreen (PixaBay.com) Make sure to subscribe to Safe As on Spotify/Apple, and if you find it useful then please help share the news, and leave a rating and review on your podcast app. I also have a Safe As LinkedIn group if you want to stay up to date on releases.

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