Designing safety interventions for specific contexts: results from a literature review.

Nektarios Karanikas; Shanchita R Khan; Philip R.A Baker; Colin Pilbeam

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Designing safety interventions for specific contexts: results from a literature review.

October 26, 2022

Karanikas N, Khan SR, Baker PRA, et al. Safety Sci. 2022;156:105906.

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Some patient safety interventions, such as checklists, are adapted or borrowed from other industries, such as aviation. This literature review focused on safety interventions developed in one context then implemented in another, such as healthcare. Healthcare was the largest sector represented, with 20 of the 73 included studies.

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