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

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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
Subjects:	Patient safety medical culture discursive regimes systems thinking
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/734/

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