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Establishing a culture of perinatal safety in a community hospital
Author(s) -
Phelan Jeffrey P.,
Korst Lisa M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of healthcare risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2040-0861
pISSN - 1074-4797
DOI - 10.1002/jhrm.20074
Subject(s) - safety culture , organizational culture , community hospital , control (management) , reliability (semiconductor) , patient safety , business , public relations , psychology , nursing , power (physics) , operations management , medicine , management , political science , engineering , health care , physics , quantum mechanics , law , economics
While unsafe behavior of frontline hospital staff, primarily physicians and nurses, is sometimes the proximal cause of adverse events, the critical importance of system‐wide, hospital organizational factors is now being acknowledged(1,2). These organizational factors create the “safety culture” that influences the occurrence of these proximal failures.(3) The concept of safety culture originated in high‐reliability organization theory, which was largely developed by a group of social scientists at the University of California at Berkeley who studied high‐risk organizations that have achieved very low accident and error rates, for example, aircraft carrier flight decks, nuclear power plants and air‐traffic control systems.(4–6) Safety culture refers to the enduring and shared beliefs and practices of organization members regarding the organization's willingness to detect and learn from errors.(7)