Culture of safety: A foundation for patient care

The 1999 IOM report on patient safety identified the house of medicine as a culture that tolerated injury at a frightening level. Identifying other industries that had cultures that would not tolerate such levels of error has begun to change the culture of healthcare to a more “high reliability” culture. Various organizational and standardized communication tools have been imported from the military, airline and energy industries to flatten the hierarchy and improve the reliability of communication and hand-offs in healthcare.

Source: Seminars in Pediatric Surgery - August 28, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: KuoJen Tsao, Marybeth Browne Source Type: research