Manifestations of high-reliability principles on hospital units with varying safety profiles: a qualitative analysis.

Sarah E Mossburg; Sallie J Weaver; MarieSarah Pillari; Elizabeth Daugherty Biddison

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Manifestations of high-reliability principles on hospital units with varying safety profiles: a qualitative analysis.

January 30, 2019

Mossburg SE, Weaver SJ, Pillari MS, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2019;34(3):230-235.

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High reliability principles from other high-risk industries are frequently adapted to health care to improve safety. In this qualitative study, researchers found that those working on hospital units with better safety performance tended to use language describing responses to safety issues and errors more consistent with high reliability principles than units with lower safety performance.

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