Learning from incidents in health care: critique from a Safety-II perspective. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Learning from incidents in health care: critique from a Safety-II perspective. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published August 2016

Learning from incidents in health care: critique from a Safety-II perspective.

Sujan MA, Huang H, Braithwaite J. Safety Sci. 2017;99:115-121.

Studying what works well to design safer systems is gaining traction in patient safety improvement work. This commentary discusses Safety-II thinking in health care and suggests that examining how an organization has effectively responded and learned from an incident can enhance quality and safety performance.

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