Archive for April, 2020
Measuring Safety Culture
Reading Time: < 1 minute Safety culture refers to the way patient safety is thought about and implemented within an organization and the structures and processes in place to support this. Safety climate is a […]
On patient safety culture and working environment
Reading Time: < 1 minute Background: Patient safety culture is defined as a product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency […]
11 Tenets of a Safety Culture – The Joint Commission
Reading Time: < 1 minute Safety culture is the sum of what an organization is and does in the pursuit of safety. The Patient Safety Systems (PS) chapter of The Joint Commission accreditation manuals defines […]
Learn from Defects Tool
Reading Time: < 1 minute Problem statement: Health care organizations can increase the extent to which they learn from defects. We define this learning as reducing the probability that a future patient will be harmed. […]