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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Med Qual. 2008 Jul-Aug;23(4):271–278. doi: 10.1177/1062860608317763

Table 3.

Student Presentation: System Factors Identified in a Healthy Volunteer Sentinel Event

Systems Identified
Case 1
Number of Errors/
Near Misses
Identified by Students
Examples Number of Errors/
Near Misses Identified
by Faculty
Percentage
Agreement
FDA 1 The FDA was not able to function in a timely way
 to respond to queries
1 100
Institutional 2 IRB approval for a drug that was no longer
 FDA approved
2 100
Team factors 5 Did not notify IRB of adverse events or discuss
 with coinvestigators
7 71
Provider factors 4 Failing to seek supervision from principal
 investigator
4 100
Task factors 5 Did not adhere to research protocol 5 100
Patient factors 0 0 100

Abbreviations: FDA, Food and Drug Administration; IRB, institutional review board.