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Office of Safety and Quality in Healthcare
To promote customer focused, safe, quality health care in Western Australia

Investigation of sentinel events

Sentinel events may signal serious breakdowns in health care systems and require immediate investigation and response. The investigation process for a sentinel event should identify root causes and contributing factors so that strategies can be implemented to minimise the occurrence of similar events in the future. Root cause analysis are one method of investigating sentinel events.