Using co-design to develop a collective leadership intervention for healthcare teams to improve safety culture.

Marie E. Ward; Aoife De Brún; Deirdre Beirne; Clare Conway; Una Cunningham; Alan English; John Fitzsimons; Eileen Furlong; Yvonne Kane; Alan Kelly; Sinéad McDonnell; Sinead McGinley; Brenda Monaghan; Ann Myler; Emer Nolan; Róisín O'Donovan; Marie O'Shea; Arwa Shuhaiber; Eilish McAuliffe

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Using co-design to develop a collective leadership intervention for healthcare teams to improve safety culture.

September 12, 2018

Ward ME, De Brún A, Beirne D, et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018;15(6):E1182.

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Change initiatives require broad-based collective design strategies to ensure the range of needs are addressed. This commentary explains how one hospital group used codesign methods to engage leadership in a teamwork and culture improvement project. The authors describe specific tools and tactics used to implement the work and summarize the value of the approach for other health care organizations.

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