Toward the translation of systems thinking methods in patient safety practice: assessing the validity of Net-HARMS and AcciMap.

Paul M Salmon; Brandon King; Adam Hulme; Satyan Chari; Linda McCormack; Michael Tresillian; Kate Bennett; Gemma J.M Read

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Toward the translation of systems thinking methods in patient safety practice: assessing the validity of Net-HARMS and AcciMap.

February 1, 2023

Salmon PM, King B, Hulme A, et al. Safety Sci. 2022;159:106003.

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Organizations are encouraged to proactively identify patient safety risks and learn from failures. This article describes validity testing of systems-thinking risk assessment (Net-HARMS) to identify risks associated with patient medication administration and an accident analysis method (AcciMap) to analyze a medication administration error.

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