Remembering to learn: the overlooked role of remembrance in safety improvement. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Remembering to learn: the overlooked role of remembrance in safety improvement. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published November 2016

Remembering to learn: the overlooked role of remembrance in safety improvement.

Macrae C. BMJ Qual Saf. 2016 Nov 18; [Epub ahead of print].

A key activity in patient safety work involves drawing from institutional memory to understand failures and design interventions to prevent them from reoccurring. This commentary discusses learning from failure, or remembrance, in health care and suggests avenues for future research to increase its application in improvement efforts.

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