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What if psychiatrists reported all their mistakes to NASA? (2 April 2026)

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A hypothetical proposal for a national incident reporting system in the United States. Drawing on lessons from aviation safety history and patient safety literature, a detailed plan is progressively built (initially centred in psychiatry), covering aspects that make an incident reporting system effective.

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Incident reporting systems have faced many implementation problems. This article shows that by exploring fields adjacent to medicine and much further afield, solutions to long-standing problems can be found. It proposes potentially novel ideas, yet to have been tried in incident reporting both in the United States and in the UK.

What if psychiatrists reported all their mistakes to NASA? (2 April 2026) https://psychiatricmultiverse.substack.com/p/what-if-psychiatrists-reported-all

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