Health Service Executive (HSE) Quality and Patient Safety Directorate2019-09-232019-09-232018-02https://hdl.handle.net/10147/626836The HSE has developed a number of review methodologies which will assist in the provision of a graduated and proportionate response to the review of incidents as identified in the HSE’s Incident Management Framework (2018). AAR has been identified as one such methodology. This guidance should therefore be read in the context of the Incident Management Framework. It should be noted that although AAR has been identified for use in Incident Management, its use should not be confined to solely to this. In fact the four questions, upon which AAR is based, can and should be used on a routine basis by individual staff and teams as a mechanism for both briefing and de-briefing. Its use as a de-briefing tool should also not be confined purely to events with a negative outcome but also for learning from complex events that went well to better understand those elements of team performance that lead to the positive outcome.enPATIENT SAFETYQUALITYCLINICAL GOVERNANCEAUDITReport