Question

RCA2 can be useful in health care because:

(A) It holds people accountable for their actions.
(B) It helps to identify system failures that can be corrected.
(C) It helps to assess the potential risk of introducing a new idea or process.
(D) All of the above.

Answer 1

(B) It helps to identify system failures that can be corrected.

Step-by-step explanation:

RCA2 is an acronym that means Improving Root Cause Analyses and Actions to Prevent Harm

This RCA is generally used by medical and health professionals to minimise error, learn how to avoid such errors and why such errors occur

After the National Patient Safety Foundations set up a panel to examine best medical practises, improve the way medical errors are investigated, there was general need to improve the effectiveness so it was renamed to RCA2 to emphasizes the need for efficiency.

The purpose of an RCA2 review is to find and destroy system loopholes so flaws in the system can be reduced greatly and eventually totally eliminated to improve patient safety.