Resilient health care: turning patient safety on its head

J Braithwaite, RL Wears… - International Journal for …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2015academic.oup.com
The current approach to patient safety, labelled Safety-I, is predicated on a 'find and
fix'model. It identifies things going wrong, after the event, and aims to stamp them out, in
order to ensure that the number of errors is as low as possible. Healthcare is much more
complex than such a linear model suggests. We need to switch the focus to what we have
come to call Safety-II: a concerted effort to enable things to go right more often. The key is to
appreciate that healthcare is resilient to a large extent, and everyday performance succeeds …
Abstract
The current approach to patient safety, labelled Safety-I, is predicated on a ‘find and fix’ model. It identifies things going wrong, after the event, and aims to stamp them out, in order to ensure that the number of errors is as low as possible. Healthcare is much more complex than such a linear model suggests. We need to switch the focus to what we have come to call Safety-II: a concerted effort to enable things to go right more often. The key is to appreciate that healthcare is resilient to a large extent, and everyday performance succeeds much more often than it fails. Clinicians constantly adjust what they do to match the conditions. Facilitating work flexibility, and actively trying to increase the capacity of clinicians to deliver more care more effectively, is key to this new paradigm. At its heart, proactive safety management focuses on how everyday performance usually succeeds rather than on why it occasionally fails, and actively strives to improve the former rather than simply preventing the latter.
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