A new pairing : root cause and success analysis Pennsylvania patient safety advisory Deutsch, Ellen S., author. Patterson, Mary D., author. Perry, Shawna J., author. Delivery of Health Care Medical Errors -- prevention & control Patient Safety Quality Improvement Root Cause Analysis Root cause analysis (RCA) is commonly used in attempts to improve the safety of healthcare delivery, but a variation--success analysis--may also be useful. Traditional RCA is based in Safety-I principles: to improve safety, practitioners focus on serious events with undesired outcomes and attempt to identify what went wrong using investigative techniques. Success analysis, evolving from Safety-II principles, can be used to learn how success was achieved, reinforce correct decisions and actions, and learn how process modifications might contribute to greater improvements. [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, September 2018 Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority, issuing body. Technical Report Text 1 online resource (1 PDF file (4 pages)). nlm:nlmuid-101735854-pdf 101735854 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101735854 English Pennsylvania United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0