Some Red Rules Shouldn’t Rule in Hospitals

As healthcare strives to create a culture of safety, many organizations are successfully incorporating safety practices utilized in highly reliable industries, including failure mode and effects an...

High-Reliability Organizations (HROs): What They Know That We Don’t (Part II)

Healthcare is a complex, error-prone industry. However, other complex, error-prone industries, such as aviation and nuclear arms handling, have much better safety records than healthcare. The funda...

High-Reliability Organizations (HROs): What They Know That We Don’t (Part I)

Healthcare is a highly complex, error-prone industry. From treating patients in a hectic emergency department to the daily pressures of dispensing thousands of medications, the delivery of healthca...