Senior staff safety rounds: a commitment to ensure safety is the top priority. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Senior staff safety rounds: a commitment to ensure safety is the top priority. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published May 2018

Senior staff safety rounds: a commitment to ensure safety is the top priority.

O'Connell RT, Ivy ME. NEJM Catalyst. May 1, 2018.

Leadership participation at the front lines can drive safety improvement work. This commentary describes how one organization used a Safety Attitudes Questionnaire to structure an executive rounding initiative and reports the positive impact of the program. Face-to-face interaction with leaders contributed to real-time improvements.

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