Adopting safety cultures used in other industries, in healthcare

Other industries may provide lessons for the transformation of safety and quality in healthcare.  This report from the Health Foundation, Using safety cases in industry and healthcare aims to describe safety case use in other industries and to outline possible healthcare application scenarios.

You may also be interested in:

The Health Foundation's Measuring safety culture and Does improving safety culture affect patient outcomes
Patient Safety First's Implementing human factors in healthcare
Health and Safety Laboratory's Developing a world-class safety culture
Patient safety from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
NHS Institute's  Six steps to encourage patient safety innovation at hospitals and Improving Patient Safety archive
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