6: Measuring safety

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The critical role of measurement ‘You cannot manage what you cannot measure’ is a familiar and perhaps rather tired management mantra, but it certainly applies to improving safety and quality….

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16: Procedures, violations and migrations

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(GAWANDE, A. COMPLICATIONS. PROFILE BOOKS LTD, HOLT METROPOLITAN, 2002 AND PICADOR USA, APRIL 2003. REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION) Although there is a certain amount of work in industry on safety behaviours…

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12: Design for patient safety

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(REILING, 2006) BOX 12.1 The psychopathology of everyday things ‘The human mind is exquisitely tailored to make sense of the world. Give it the slightest clue and off it goes,…

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20: High performing healthcare systems

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Conditions and drivers of change We have already reviewed the conditions that provide the necessary foundations for change in clinical microsystems. The transformation of an entire health economy requires that…

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14: Creating a culture of safety

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LEAPE ET AL. (1998) A somewhat lethal cocktail of impatience, scientific ignorance and naive optimism may have dangerously inflated our expectations of safety culture.(COX AND FLIN, 1998) Both these statements…

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3: Integrating safety and quality

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Defining patient safety Patient safety can, at its simplest, be defined as: The avoidance, prevention and amelioration of adverse outcomes or injuries stemming from the process of healthcare.(VINCENT, 2006) This…

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15: Patient involvement in patient safety

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(ADAPTED FROM BERWICK DM. “TAKING ACTION TO IMPROVE SAFETY: HOW TO IMPROVE THE CHANCES OF SUCCESS.” PRESENTATION AT THE ANNENBERG CENTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES CONFERENCE, ENHANCING PATIENT SAFETY AND REDUCING…

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