Leading your organization to high reliability.

Carol Kemper; Diane K. Boyle

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Leading your organization to high reliability.

April 22, 2009

Kemper C, Boyle DK. Nurs Manag. 2009;40(4):14-18.

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This commentary describes high reliability organization theory and offers tools to apply these concepts in work units and organizations.

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