Doctors' thinking about the system as a threat to patient safety

‘Systems thinking’ is an important feature of the emerging ‘patient safety’ agenda. As a key component of a ‘safety culture’, it encourages clinicians to look past individual error to recognise the latent factors that threaten safety. This paper investigates whether current medical thinking is comm...

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Main Author: Waring, Justin
Format: Article
Published: SAGE 2007
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/734/