Health care clinicians successfully apply proven medical evidence in common acute, chronic, or preventive care processes less than 80 percent of the time. This low level of reliability at the basic process level means that health care's efforts to improve reliability start from a different baseline from most other industries, and therefore may require a different approach. This paper describes ...

Background A high-reliability organization (HRO) is a separate paradigm can indicate medical error reduction and patient safety improvement. Hospitals, as vital organizations in the health care system, can transform to HROs to achieve optimal performance and maximum safety in order to manage unpredicted events efficiently. Therefore, the aim of this research was to determine the knowledge of ma...

“The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views...at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald) In distributed, complex socio-technical systems, risks increasingly originate from multiple sources, affect multiple agents in diverse ways, and thus become systemic. The traditional linear causal model of risk control and an individual de...

The test of a first-class mind is the ability to hold two opposing views… at the same time and still retain the ability to function." (F. Scott Fitzgerald) In distributed complex socio-technical systems, risks increasingly originate from multiple sources, affect multiple agents with divergent perspectives and thus become systemic. The traditional simple causal model of risk control and an ind...

The Mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been to support and conduct health services research and to disseminate those research findings. Recently the Agency has changed its mission to: "Improving the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans." For agency personnel working with the topic of patient safety, that change has crea...

Technology has been continuously improving, causing high business pressures that affect organizations’ current and future competitiveness. Gaining competitive advantage is critical for organizations. Among the various resources which organizations deploy to succeed, information is identified as a crucial resource. The success of organizations depends on the decisions made and the excellence of ...

In current manufacturing systems, short times for product development and ramp-up as well as high production rates and customized products are of increasing importance. To push the efficiency (and thus the economic gain) of production further, recent investigations combine aspects of flexible manufacturing with technical cognition – the latter refers to a system’s capability to perceive a momen...

This study aims to demonstrate how senior leadership applies high-reliability organizations' functions when managing the Coronavirus pandemic in healthcare organizations and extend current research by focusing on identifying which are more important for crises organizations. To achieve aim of study, a qualitative approach was applied with well-known statistical analyses. Descriptive statistics ...