What has an Airbus A380 captain got to do with OMFS? Lessons from aviation to improve patient safety. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

What has an Airbus A380 captain got to do with OMFS? Lessons from aviation to improve patient safety. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published May 2019

What has an Airbus A380 captain got to do with OMFS? Lessons from aviation to improve patient safety.

Davidson M, Brennan PA. Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2019;57:407-411.

Aviation has provided health care with insights regarding how systems approaches, blame-free reporting, and teamwork can prevent failure. This commentary summarizes tactics used in aviation that have been applied to surgery in support of efforts to reduce patient harm.

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