> How on earth can you have a non-blame culture when you call your
> reporting system "CRIME-base"?
Stands for CRitical Incident Monitoring in Emergency medicine
The non-blame culture refers to the anonymity of the reporting system. I
believe that acronyms can actually attract interest and hence reporting.
Sure, we could have called it 'The Non-blame culture, friendly, anonymous,
lets learn from each other database of critical incidents in emergency
medicine'. Eh, I think not. No doubt lots of wags on the list could
come
up with alternative acronyms. But whats in a name ? It is pricipally a
marketing tool. I am more interested in content and I do not believe the
name is scaring people off.
Exactly! The catchy title of the database is great. The real crime is the
culture of burying the mistake with the victim. Failure to report =
collusion. MY worry, however, is whether people (politicians, press) will
read the result to apportion blame - not exactly in the spirit with which
the data is collected.
Howard Simpson. Basingstoke
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