Making noncatastrophic health care processes reliable: Learning to walk before running in creating high-reliability organizations

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4 II, 2006, Pages 1677-1689

  Resar, Roger K ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Human factors; Reliability; Reliable design

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION;

BENCHMARKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746365090     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2006.00571.x     Document Type: Review

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