Thursday, September 11, 2008

Airline safety: incentives and reporting

The NY Times has a story on airline safety, Panel Backs Letting Airlines Confess Errors Unpunished . Airlines and doctors have very different practices about reporting errors: there's more public reporting of "near misses" and other events in the domain of air traffic control, but docs have morbidity conferences in which they talk among themselves about bad outcomes.

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