Towards a unified model of accident causation: refining and validating the systems thinking safety tenets.
Salmon PM, Hulme A, Walker GH, et al. Towards a unified model of accident causation: refining and validating the systems thinking safety tenets. Ergonomics. 2023;66(5):644-657. doi:10.1080/00140139.2022.2107709.
Systems thinking concepts are used by healthcare organizations to encourage learning from failures and identifying solutions to complex patient safety problems. This article outlines a refined and validated set of systems thinking tenets and discusses how they can be used to proactively identify threats to patient safety.