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Annual Perspectives 2015

ANNUAL PERSPECTIVE

Accountability in Patient Safety

Christopher Moriates, MD, and Robert M. Wachter, MD

While the patient safety world has largely embraced the concept of a just culture for many years, in 2015 the discussion moved toward tackling some of the specifics and many gray areas that must be addressed to realize this ideal. This Annual Perspective reviews the context of the "no blame" movement and the recent shift toward a framework of a just culture, which incorporates appropriate accountability in health care.

ANNUAL PERSPECTIVE

Burnout Among Health Professionals and Its Effect on Patient Safety

Audrey Lyndon, PhD

Clinician burnout is prevalent across health care settings and may impair clinicians' ability to maintain safe practices and detect emerging safety threats. This Annual Perspective summarizes studies published in 2015, with a particular focus on the relationship between burnout and patient safety, and interventions to address burnout among clinicians.

ANNUAL PERSPECTIVE

Computerized Provider Order Entry and Patient Safety

Urmimala Sarkar, MD, and Kaveh Shojania, MD

Computerized provider order entry is a cornerstone of patient safety efforts, and the increasingly widespread implementation of electronic health records has made it a standard practice in health care. This Annual Perspective summarizes novel findings and research directions in computerized provider order entry in 2015.

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