Radically redesigning patient safety.

Lea E. Radick

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Radically redesigning patient safety.

May 4, 2016

Radick LE. Healthcare executive. 2016;31(2):32-4, 36-40, 42.

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Leadership and staff commitment are required to achieve improvements in patient safety. Discussing how patient harm can still occur even with these elements in place, this article highlights strategies to engage senior leadership as champions to foster successful redesign of work processes to enhance safety.

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