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Root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.
Patient misidentification was cited in more than 100 individual root cause analyses by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center for Patient Safety from January 2000 to March 2003 (2).