Approaches to improve patient safety in healthcare organizations

Crossing to safety: transforming healthcare organizations for patient safety.

The current healthcare system is not designed to ensure better patient safety. In addition, healthcare is simultaneously becoming increasingly complex and increasingly fragmented. Medical knowledge and technology are expanding at an incredible rate, making it difficult for the healthcare providers to keep pace with advancing knowledge. Patients' needs are changing too: shifting from the diagnos...

Patient safety organizations can help providers improve performance and results.

Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving patient safety in healthcare organizations.

Increasingly, healthcare organizations are becoming aware of the importance of transforming organizational culture in order to improve patient safety. Growing interest in safety culture has been accompanied by the need for assessment tools focused on the cultural aspects of patient safety improvement efforts. This paper discusses the use of safety culture assessment as a tool for improving pati...

Patient safety--worker safety: building a culture of safety to improve healthcare worker and patient well-being.

Patient safety within the Canadian healthcare system is currently a high national priority, which merits a comprehensive understanding of the underlying causes of adverse events. Not least among these is worker health and safety, which is linked to patient outcomes. Healthcare workers have a high risk of workplace injuries and more mental health problems than most other occupational groups. Man...

Information- and Knowledge-Based Approaches to Improve Performance in Organizations

Design and implementation of industrial systems requires a greater understanding and knowledge about the role of information in systems operation. Today, a growing complexity of information flow is a characteristic of the majority of industries. Systems also operate in changing environments surrounded by numerous uncertainties and disturbances. Difficulties arise from unexpected tasks and event...