That's the way we do things around here! Your actions speak louder than words when it comes to patient safety.

Matthew Grissinger

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That's the way we do things around here! Your actions speak louder than words when it comes to patient safety.

June 18, 2014

Grissinger M. P T. 2014;39(5):308-44.

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Examining how safety culture influences behavior, this commentary describes a study that identified factors likely to affect clinician adoption of peers' professional or safety-related behaviors, including beliefs in the system approach, error disclosure, and risk reduction strategies.

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