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First do no harm: practitioners’ ability to ‘diagnose’ system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality

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  • Mike English Oxford Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Muthoni Ogola Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jalemba Aluvaala Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Edith Gicheha Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Grace Irimu Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jacob McKnight Oxford Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Charles A Vincent Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Mike English, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK; menglish{at}kemri-wellcome.org
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English M, Ogola M, Aluvaala J, et al
First do no harm: practitioners’ ability to ‘diagnose’ system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2021;106:326-332.

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  • First published December 23, 2020.
Online issue publication 
March 18, 2021

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