Clarifying radiology's role in safety events: a 5-year retrospective common cause analysis of safety events at a pediatric hospital.

Background: Common cause analysis of hospital safety events that involve radiology can identify opportunities to improve quality of care and patient safety.

Objective: To study the most frequent system failures as well as key activities and processes identified in safety events in an academic children's hospital that underwent root cause analysis and in which radiology was determined to play a contributing role.

Materials And Methods: All safety events involving diagnostic or interventional radiology from April 2013 to November 2018, for which the hospital patient safety department conducted root cause analysis, were retrospectively analyzed.