Health care huddles: Managing complexity to achieve high reliability

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-12

  Provost, Shannon M ^a   Lanham, Holly J ^a,b   Leykum, Luci K ^b   McDaniel, Reuben R ^c   Pugh, Jacqueline ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

complex adaptive systems; conversation; health care huddles; high reliability organizations; relationships

Indexed keywords

GROUP PROCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PROCEDURES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GROUP PROCESSES; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84918797833     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: 15505030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0000000000000009     Document Type: Article

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