Tag: MedicalErrors

Root Cause Analysis of a Medical Error

By: Lawrence F Muscarella, PhD; updated: 10/29/2014: The article “Other Possible Causes of a Well-Publicized Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Following Arthroscopy in Texas” by Lawrence F Muscarella, PhD, was published…

Root Cause Analysis of an Endoscope-Reprocessing Breach

Initial remarks: This blog, which was written by Lawrence F. Muscarella, Ph.D. and is divided into 2 parts, discusses: a confirmed infection-control breach in a hospital’s Endoscopy Unit; the employment…