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Leadership in safety culture

October 28, 2012

Effective leadership is key to the success of any organization, and is essential in the development of safety culture. 

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Hospital-Wide Measures Do Not Tell the Whole Story

November 1, 2011

Building on earlier research showing broad variation in patient safety culture within individual hospitals, Dutch investigators evaluated the rate of preventable adverse events, both between hospitals and between hospital departments. Twenty percent of all Dutch hospitals were included in the study.

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CEO Holds key to Improved Outcomes

September 1, 2011

Research in nuclear energy, aviation and other innovative industries indicates that these high-reliability industries place a premium on safety as an integral part of the organization’s culture, and the CEO occupies the leading role in fostering that culture.CEO involvement takes two primary forms: high-visibility leadership promoting organizational safety attitudes, behavior and performance and participation in industry-driven initiatives and activities whose results could be felt industry wide.These industries rely on peer pressure created by open communication and mutual accountability, which drives the development of safety standards and best practices that yielded behavior change and impressive results.

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The ‘how-to guide’ for leadership for safety

November 7, 2012 National Health Service Patient Safety First Campaign

The purpose of this guide is to provide health care system decision makers with an overview of how they can develop their roles and responsibilities in leading a safety agenda, and actions they can undertake to achieve this within their organizations. 

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Leadership guide to patient safety

November 5, 2012 Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2006

This paper presents eight steps that are recommended for leaders to follow to achieve patient safety and high reliability in their organizations. Each step and its component parts are described in detail in the sections that follow, and resources for more information are provided where available.

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Becoming a high reliability organization
Operational advice for hospital leaders

August 10, 2012 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)Publication No. 08-0022

Hospitals do most things right, much of the time. But even very infrequent failures in critical processes can have terrible consequences for a patient. Creating a culture and processes that radically reduce system failures and effectively respond when failures do occur is the goal of high reliability thinking. This document is written for hospital leaders at all levels who are interested in providing patients safer and higher quality care. It presents the thoughts, successes, and failures of hospital leaders who have used concepts of high reliability to make patient care better. It is a guidebook for leaders who want to do the same.

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Priority areas for national action
Transforming health care quality

August 10, 2012 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

The list of priority areas identified by the committee is intended to serve as a starting point for transforming the nation’s health care system. Many of the leading causes of death are on this list. Just five of the conditions included—heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and diabetes—account for approximately 1.5 million deaths annually and represent 63 percent of total deaths in the United States.

If redesigning systems of care resulted in merely a 5 percent mortality improvement in these areas alone, nearly 75,000 premature deaths could potentially be averted.

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