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AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Lost in translation? Addressing barriers in the application of industrial process improvement methodologies to health care.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network

AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Lost in translation? Addressing barriers in the application of industrial process improvement methodologies to health care.

Gray D, Johnson KD, Watts B. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014;40:514-521.

High-reliability organizations like the aviation industry have developed methods for achieving safety despite hazardous conditions. This commentary describes obstacles to utilizing process improvement techniquesfrom industry in health care—such as skepticism about the applicability of the methods to frontline practice—and relates strategies to understand and address these barriers.

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