Enhanced Significant (learning) Event Analysis (SEA) - eModule

Summary

A Human Factors approach to significant event analysis for more meaningful improvement implementation to minimise the risks of the event happening again.

Enhanced SEA is a National Education Scotland innovation (funded by the Health Foundation 2012 SHINE programme) which aims to guide health care teams to apply human factors thinking when performing a significant event analysis, particularly where the event has had an emotional impact on staff involved.

Taking this approach will help individual clinicians and care teams to openly, honestly and objectively analyse patient safety incidents, particularly more difficult or sensitive safety cases, by ‘depersonalising’ the incident and searching for deeper, systems-based reasons for why the significant event happened.