ROOTCAUSE

Root cause

A root cause is an initiating cause of a causal chain which leads to an outcome or effect of interest. Commonly, root cause is used to describe the depth in the causal chain where an intervention could reasonably be implemented to change performance and prevent an undesirable outcome.

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root cause

Noun

  1. An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.


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