Background Traditional approaches to safety management in health care have focused
primarily on counting errors and understanding how things go wrong. Resilient Health Care …

Background Understanding the resilience of healthcare is critically important. A resilient
healthcare system might be expected to consistently deliver high quality care, withstand …

Resilience principles show promise for improving the quality of healthcare, but there is a
need for further theoretical development to include all levels and scales of activity across the …

Background Healthcare is amongst the most complex of human systems. Coordinating
activities and integrating newer with older ways of treating patients while delivering high …

Background Clinical work in the operating room (OR) is considered challenging as it is
complex, dynamic, and often time-and resource-constrained. Important characteristics for …

Background Management, culture and systems for better quality and patient safety in
hospitals have been widely studied in Norway. Nursing homes and home care, however …

Background Transitions of care are often risky, particularly for older people, and shorter
hospital stays mean that patients can go home with ongoing care needs. Most previous …

This reflection piece explores societal resilience as an emerging field in safety science
research. Based on the growing interest for safety in a societal context–and the natural …

A proxy measurement of four resilience potentials (respond, monitor, learn, and anticipate)
developed by Hollnagel is called the resilience assessment grid (RAG). This study aimed to …

The built environment is a core part of most healthcare systems, involving a number of
requirements such as those related to space and patients' well-being. However, these are …