background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

accidents and their resulting losses are one of the critical public health issues. identification the near misses offer the opportunity to improve safety by developing effective prevention approach. the main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of two types of intervention in increasing the participation of first line managers in reporting near misses. in order to increase the...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of near-miss cases, nature of near-miss events and mortality among obstetric patients. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study was conducted in the Obstetric Unit of Fatima Hospital, Baqai Medical University, from January 2006 to December 2006. METHODOLOGY Near-miss case definition was based on validated...