Safeguarding patients: complexity science, high reliability organizations, and implications for team training in healthcare.

Leslie M. McKeon; Jill D. Oswaks; Patricia D. Cunningham

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Safeguarding patients: complexity science, high reliability organizations, and implications for team training in healthcare.

December 20, 2006

McKeon LM, Oswaks JD, Cunningham PD. Clin Nurse Spec. 2006;20(6):298-306.

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The authors discuss the concepts of high reliability organizations and complexity science as well as the challenges of successfully integrating them into team training initiatives.

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