Open AccessPatient safety is everyone's business
Author(s) -
Mandel Catherine
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of medical radiation sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2051-3909
pISSN - 2051-3895
DOI - 10.1002/jmrs.241
Subject(s) - patient safety , near miss , incident report , harm , health care , medical emergency , medicine , affect (linguistics) , business , computer science , psychology , computer security , political science , engineering , social psychology , forensic engineering , communication , law
This editorial addresses the importance of incident reporting, checklists and a just culture to patient safety.