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Introduction

Ensuring patient safety in the prehospital environment is difficult due to the unpredictable nature of the workload and the uncontrolled situations that care is provided in. Studying previous safety incidents can help understand risks and take action to mitigate them. We present an analysis of safety incidents related to patient deaths in ambulance services in England.

Methods

All incidents related to a patient death reported to the Nati…

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Deaths following prehospital safety incidents: an analysis of a national database