'Just culture': improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

'Just culture': improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published March 2016

'Just culture': improving safety by achieving substantive, procedural and restorative justice.

Dekker SWA, Breakey H. Saf Sci. 2016;85:187-193.

A just culture balances organizational context with appropriate accountability after an error. This commentary outlines moral and safety issues that just culture approaches should address to build trust for blame-free response to error and enable learning from failure.

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