An asset-based quality improvement tool for health care organizations: cultivating organization wide quality improvement and health care professional engagement.
Loving VA, Nolan C, Bessel M. An asset-based quality improvement tool for health care organizations: cultivating organizationwide quality improvement and health care professional engagement. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. Epub 2022 Aug 18. doi: 10.1016/j.jcjq.2022.08.006
The Safety-II perspective emphasizes improving patient safety by focusing on what goes right in healthcare, rather than on errors or what goes wrong (Safety-I). This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an organizational, asset-based quality improvement tool to complement existing practices (such as peer review and incident reporting) and provide an additional avenue to identify best practices and successful quality improvement initiatives.