Patient engagement and encouragement to speak up about their care can promote patient safety. This qualitative study explored patients’ psychosocial experiences after surviving abdominal surgery complications. Findings highlight an overarching theme of vulnerability and how power imbalances between patients and healthcare professionals can influence speaking up behaviors.

Engineering and design concepts are being applied across many health care domains to improve safety. This article summarizes 8 tenets from human factors and ergonomics practice to reduce the potential for the pressures of humanness to detract from the safe use of artificial intelligence.

… within healthcare settings. … Verhagen MJ, de Vos MS, Sujan M, et al. The problem with making Safety II work in …

This commentary discusses the use of “safety cases” to communicate the safety of a product, system or service in industry (e.g., aviation, defense, railways). Using an example of a smart infusion pump, the authors discuss how to apply this concept in healthcare to support the safe adoption of digital health innovations.

Health information technology (IT) holds both promise and peril for clinicians and patients. To manage problems associated with health IT systems, this commentary recommends applying risk assessment and organizational learning strategies to identify and address predictable risks.

This qualitative study found that despite the public outcry over care standards at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation trust, barriers to incident reporting persist, including lack of familiarity among frontline staff, poor feedback, fear of repercussions, and insufficient equipment and training. This suggests that novel approaches to enhancing safety and reporting culture are needed.

According to this human factors study, handoff practices in emergency medicine vary depending on physicians' competing demands. The authors suggest that these dynamic trade-offs in which handoff practices are adjusted for specific situations actually enhance safety, in contrast to recent work promoting standardized handoff communication.

… social media mechanism hosted on a public Web site. … Sujan M, Furniss D. Organisational reporting and learning …