Health care safety incidents in paediatric emergency care.

Objective: To characterize safety incidents in paediatric emergency departments (PEDs): frequency, sources, root causes, and consequences.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study in the PED of the Clinical University Hospital XX (blinded for review). Patients were recruited through opportunity sampling and the data were collected during care delivery and one week later through a telephone survey.