Rethinking use of air-safety principles to reduce fatal hospital errors.

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Rethinking use of air-safety principles to reduce fatal hospital errors.

September 7, 2022

Pasztor A, Andersen A. Health Affairs Forefront. August 26, 2022.

The safety of commercial aviation has been a model for health care, yet achieving their level of reliability has been evasive. This piece suggests that weaknesses in voluntary reporting, hazard communication, and human factors design, all of which are core to aviation's success, are contributing to the lack of similar success in health care.

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