never event

Recently a few interesting articles have been published to explore what are called never events or serious patient safety incidents that should not occur if appropriate preventive measures are implemented in dentistry. However, these articles and their analysis are all tailored to the U.K. The first article is titled “Patient safety in dentistry: development of a candidate ‘never event’ list for primary care” written by Black et al. in the British Dental Journal (vol. 222, no. 10, pp. 782-788, Published May 26, 2017). The second article is titled “Developing agreement on never events in primary care dentistry: an international eDelphi study,” written by Ensaldo-Carrasco et al. in the British Dental Journal (vol. 224, no. 9, pp. 733-740, Published May 11, 2018). Prior to these articles there was not much clear research done on never events in dentistry. The best article … Read more