...Michele Clark; Marion Gray; Jane Mooney Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of near‐misses and mistakes among new graduate occupational therapists from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), and their knowledge of current incident reporting systems. Design...

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... Zealand Establishing large clinical databases is increasing world‐wide. Data from these databases or registries are used by healthcare providers, hospital staff, clinical researchers and Government staff (Peabody et al., 2004 ; Hogan and Wagner, 1997). The Australian and New Zealand...

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