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Risk-Based Patient Safety Metrics
www.ahrq.govuse of patient safety measures does not assure that they will be useful for improving safety and reducing harm. Even worse, invalid measures can lead to poor decisionmaking, whereas measures that do not lead to safety improvements can be viewed as lost opportunity costs. The two dominant frameworks for patient safety metrics focus on ...
Continuous improvement of patient safety
www.health.org.ukthe landscape of obstacles. But there are at least two inescapable facts that make improving safety especially difficult and frustrating. First, securing safety is a task that cannot be ‘finished’, ever. As Professor James Reason puts it: ‘Safety is a continually emerging property of a complex system.’ The threats to
OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY REPORT 2000/048 - …
www.hse.gov.uk6 2. About this report This report will assist the reader in designing, implementing and improving safety behaviour modification programmes. In addition, it will provide the HSE, including offshore inspectors
Improving Patient and Worker Safety - Joint Commission
www.jointcommission.orgbridge safety-related concepts and topics that are often siloed within the specific disci-plines of patient safety/quality improvement and occupational health and safety. This monograph includes information about the following: † High reliability in health care organizations and benefits to improving safety for both patients and workers