High reliability leadership: a conceptual framework. | PSNet

Provide Feedback |

Submit a Case

Register

Commentary

High reliability leadership: a conceptual framework.

August 16, 2017

Martínez-Córcoles M. J Contingencies Crisis Manage. 2017;26(2):237-246.

View more articles from the same authors.

Leadership engagement is key to achieving improvements that support safe care. This commentary discusses behaviors of frontline leaders in high reliability organizations outside of health care. The author reviews actions associated with high reliability organization characteristics, such as willingness to speak up, preoccupation with failure, and deference to expertise that align with leadership roles in medicine.

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Towards a new paradigm in laboratory medicine: the five rights.

December 21, 2016

Quality indicators to detect pre-analytical errors in laboratory testing.

September 12, 2012

System-related and cognitive errors in laboratory medicine.

January 9, 2019

Errors in a stat laboratory: changes in type and frequency since 1996.

June 13, 2007

Causes of errors in the electrocardiographic diagnosis of atrial fibrillation by physicians.

March 14, 2007

Quality, patient safety, and the cardiac surgical team.

June 19, 2013

Potential preanalytical and analytical vulnerabilities in the laboratory diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

April 29, 2020

Medical students' experiences with medical errors: an analysis of medical student essays.

June 11, 2008

The "hidden curriculum" and residents' attitudes about medical error disclosure: comparison of surgical and nonsurgical residents.

October 9, 2013

Every patient should be enabled to stop the line.

December 12, 2018

Using near-miss events to improve MRI safety in a large academic centre.

May 15, 2019

Surgeon-specific mortality data disguise wider failings in delivery of safe surgical services.

November 19, 2014

Medication errors and drug-dispensing systems in a hospital pharmacy.

September 21, 2005

Impact of an intervention to reduce prescribing errors in a pediatric intensive care unit.

December 5, 2012

Prejudice in perceptions of physicians?: The influence of race and gender on evaluations of medical errors.

August 8, 2018

Implementing a perioperative handoff tool to improve postprocedural patient transfers.

March 7, 2012

Identifying risk in the use of tumor markers to improve patient safety.

May 4, 2016

The association of patient safety climate and nurse-related organizational factors with selected patient outcomes: a cross-sectional survey.

June 27, 2012

Physician patient communication failure facilitates medication errors in older polymedicated patients with multiple comorbidities.

September 12, 2012

Increasing patient–clinician concordance about medical error disclosure through the patient TIPS model.

July 12, 2017

Optimizing post-acute care patient safety: a scoping review of multifactorial fall prevention interventions for older adults.

July 13, 2022

Processes for identifying and reviewing adverse events and near misses at an academic medical center.

January 18, 2017

Anaesthesia clinicians' perception of safety, workload, anxiety, and stress in a remote hybrid suite compared with the operating room.

December 13, 2023

Causes, consequences, detection, and prevention of identification errors in laboratory diagnostics.

April 22, 2009

Patients and families as teachers: a mixed methods assessment of a collaborative learning model for medical error disclosure and prevention.

July 13, 2016

Promoting engagement by patients and families to reduce adverse events in acute care settings: a systematic review.

February 5, 2014

Visual illusions in radiology: untrue perceptions in medical images and their implications for diagnostic accuracy.

August 11, 2021

Team relations and role perceptions during anesthesia crisis management in magnetic-resonance imaging settings: a mixed-methods exploration.

March 20, 2024

Mandating limits on workload, duty, and speed in radiology.

July 6, 2022

Smartphone distraction during nursing care: systematic literature review.

April 7, 2021

Standardizing medication reconciliation in a pediatric emergency department.

February 14, 2024

Outcomes and patient safety in overlapping vs. nonoverlapping total joint arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

January 19, 2022

Promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

March 13, 2013

Pediatric trainees' speaking up about unprofessional behavior and traditional patient safety threats.

September 30, 2020

Potentiality of algorithms and artificial intelligence adoption to improve medication management in primary care: a systematic review.

April 26, 2023

Nurses' perceptions and demands regarding COVID-19 care delivery in critical care units and hospital emergency services.

December 2, 2020

A practical tool to learn from defects in patient care.

February 8, 2006

A check-up for safety culture in "my patient care area."

November 14, 2007

Identifying and categorising patient safety hazards in cardiovascular operating rooms using an interdisciplinary approach: a multisite study.

May 23, 2012

Medication reconciliation in oncological patients: a randomized clinical trial.

June 15, 2016

Implementation of safeguards to improve patient safety in chemotherapy.

September 20, 2017

The surgeon as the second victim? Results of the Boston Intraoperative Adverse Events Surgeons' Attitude (BISA) study.

March 22, 2017

From COVID-19 pandemic to patient safety: a new "spring" for telemedicine or a boomerang effect?

July 27, 2022

Using coworker observations to promote accountability for disrespectful and unsafe behaviors by physicians and advanced practice professionals.

March 30, 2016

A virtual breakthrough series collaborative to support deprescribing interventions across Veterans Affairs healthcare settings.

October 4, 2023

Locating errors through networked surveillance: a multimethod approach to peer assessment, hazard identification, and prioritization of patient safety efforts in cardiac surgery.

April 23, 2014

Medication reconciliation for patients after their discharge from intensive care unit to the hospital ward.

July 19, 2023

Role-modeling and medical error disclosure: a national survey of trainees.

February 12, 2014

'Speaking up' about patient safety concerns and unprofessional behaviour among residents: validation of two scales.

August 26, 2015

Pilot implementation of a perioperative protocol to guide operating room-to-intensive care unit patient handoffs.

February 29, 2012

Operating room briefings.

July 5, 2006

Qualitative content analysis of coworkers' safety reports of unprofessional behavior by physicians and advanced practice professionals.

April 18, 2018

Speaking up about traditional and professionalism-related patient safety threats: a national survey of interns and residents.

May 10, 2017

Cardiac surgery errors: results from the UK National Reporting and Learning System.

February 16, 2011

Safety culture in cardiac surgical teams: data from five programs and national surgical comparison.

September 23, 2015

Use of a structured approach and virtual simulation practice to improve diagnostic reasoning.

February 23, 2022

Toward improving patient safety through voluntary peer-to-peer assessment.

January 25, 2012

Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association.

August 21, 2013

Validation of a reduced set of high-performance triggers for identifying patient safety incidents with harm in primary care.

November 8, 2023

Predictive power of the "trigger tool" for the detection of adverse events in general surgery: a multicenter observational validation study.

March 9, 2022

EAU policy on live surgery events.

March 12, 2014

Making Health Care Safer II: An Updated Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Patient Safety Practices.

March 6, 2013

Adverse events in intensive care and continuing care units during bed-bath procedures: the prospective observational NURSIng during critical carE (NURSIE) study.

December 23, 2020

Evaluation of clinical practice guidelines on fall prevention and management for older adults: a systematic review.

January 12, 2022

View More

Related Resources

Patient Safety Executive Development Program.

September 10, 2024 - October 22, 2024

CHPSO Annual Reports.

August 15, 2023

Roadmap to Health Care Safety for Massachusetts.

May 3, 2023

Speaking up as an extension of socio-cultural dynamics in hospital settings: a study of staff experiences of speaking up across seven hospitals.

February 22, 2023

An evidence and consensus-based definition of second victim: a strategic topic in healthcare quality, patient safety, person-centeredness and human resource management.

February 15, 2023

‘Ladder’-based safety culture assessments inversely predict safety outcomes.

February 8, 2023

What I wish I’d known: how experienced physician managers diagnose, treat and prevent disruptive behaviour.

September 21, 2022

Employee silence in health care: charting new avenues for leadership and management.

August 3, 2022

What counts as a voiceable concern in decisions about speaking out in hospitals: a qualitative study.

January 19, 2022

Why an open disclosure procedure is and is not followed after an avoidable adverse event.

September 8, 2021

Health care workers' experiences of workplace incidents that posed a risk of patient and worker injury: a critical incident technique analysis.

July 14, 2021

Healthcare professionals experience of psychological safety, voice, and silence.

May 26, 2021

Strategies to prevent missed nursing care: an international qualitative study based upon a positive deviance approach.

May 12, 2021

A systems approach to address the impact of second victim phenomenon.

December 9, 2020

Making communication and resolution programmes mission critical in healthcare organisations.

November 11, 2020

September 17, 2020

With a little help from my friends: the positive contribution of teamwork to safety behaviour in public hospitals.

April 8, 2020

Perspective

Building a Safety Program in a Vast Health Care Network

March 1, 2019

A factorial survey on safety behavior providing opportunities to improve safety.

December 5, 2018

Ethical duty of health care systems to address interfacility medical error discovery.

October 17, 2018

Resource-based view on safety culture's influence on hospital performance: the moderating role of electronic health record implementation.

September 19, 2018

Using co-design to develop a collective leadership intervention for healthcare teams to improve safety culture.

September 12, 2018

Operating management system for high reliability: leadership, accountability, learning and innovation in healthcare.

September 5, 2018

The dilemma of patient safety work: perceptions of hospital middle managers.

August 22, 2018

Experience feedback committees: a way of implementing a root cause analysis practice in hospital medical departments.

August 15, 2018

Quality and the health system: becoming a high reliability organization.

July 25, 2018

National quality program achieves improvements in safety culture and reduction in preventable harms in community hospitals.

June 20, 2018

Physician resiliency and wellness for transforming a health system.

May 30, 2018

The elusive and illusive quest for diagnostic safety metrics.

May 16, 2018

High Reliability for a Highly Unreliable World: Preparing for Code Blue Through Daily Operations in Healthcare.

May 16, 2018

View More

See More About The Topic

Facility and Group Administrators

Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events

Culture of Safety

To sign up for updates or to access your subscriber preferences, please enter your email address below.

5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Telephone: (301) 427-1364