Creating a culture of accountability promotes safe medical care.

Canadian Medical Protective Association. CMPA Perspective. September 2018;10:8-11.

Frontline leadership should model just culture behaviors to encourage reporting and discussion of error to facilitate improvement. This news article uses a medical administration error to examine whether human error, at-risk behavior, or reckless action on the part of a clinician led to the mistake and explores leadership response to the incident to determine accountability in each type of situation.

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