Root Cause Analysis

"Root Cause Analysis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Multi-step systematic review process used for improving safety by investigation of incidents to find what happened, why it happened, and to determine what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

Descriptor ID	D060891
MeSH Number(s)	N05.715.360.700
Concept/Terms	Root Cause Analysis Root Cause Analysis Analyses, Root Cause Analysis, Root Cause Cause Analyses, Root Cause Analysis, Root Root Cause Analyses

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Root Cause Analysis".

Health Care [N]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Quality of Health Care [N05.715]
Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms [N05.715.360]
Root Cause Analysis [N05.715.360.700]

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