Designing Healthcare Organizations to Reduce Medical Errors and Enhance Patient Safety
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Hospital Topics
- Vol. 85 (4), 4-9
- https://doi.org/10.3200/htps.85.4.4-9
Abstract
Medical errors and patient safety are urgent healthcare management challenges. To date, not enough has occurred to provide a systematic organizational design framework for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. The authors offer such a framework by integrating multiple organizational factors and using well-accepted organization theory, citing relevant empirical research studies of medical errors and patient safety to support specific organizational factors. They discuss organizational design implications and recommendations for healthcare executives.Keywords
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