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Northern Health Library: HRO - Quality and safety


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Quality and Safety Expert Searches

Expert searches are professionally developed searches of evidence-based databases that support clinical best-practice. These expert searches have been prepared by experienced Australian clinical librarians and use PubMed as the database resource.

Search NH library's resources for HRO / patient safety evidence

PubMed Quality and Safety Clinical Queries search results

NH Library Quality and Safety Medline and CINAHL database search

Google Scholar Quality and Safety search

Must reads: Classic literature on quality and safety & high reliability organisations

Quality and safety

All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals safer. Stephen Duckett and Christine Jorm (2018). Grattan Institute.

The quality in Australian health care study. Ross McL Wilson, William B Runciman, Robert W Gibberd, Bernadette T Harrison, Liza Newby and John D Hamilton (1995). Medical Journal of Australia, 163(9).

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J. M., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.). (2000). National Academies Press (US).

High reliability organisations (HRO)

Becoming a high reliability organization. Christianson, M.K., Sutcliffe, K.M., Miller, M.A. et al. (2011). Critical Care, 15, 314.

High-reliability health care: getting there from here. Chassin, M. & Loeb, J. (2013). The Milbank quarterly, 91, 459-490.

WHO's World Patient Safety Day in 2023 celebrates "Engaging patients for patient safety".

NSQHS Standards Explained: the 2 minute primer

Interactive patient safety information

These online modules from Access Medicine will provide an introduction to the core concepts of patient safety in an interactive and self-paced learning environment. Activities, video and quizzes help consolidate learning.

The current course includes three (3) modules: 

Quality and Safety articles

 Adopting high reliability organization principles to lead a large scale clinical transformation. Pozzobon LD, Lam J, Chimonides E, Perkins-Meingast B, Luk W-S. (2023) Healthcare Management Forum, 36(4):241-245.

 

Promoting systemic incident analysis in healthcare—key challenges and ways forward. Patrick Waterson. (2021). International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33(4).

 

Competing risks in quality and safety research: a framework to guide choice of analysis and improve reporting. PJ Marang-van de Mheen, H Putter, E Bastiaannet, et al. (2021). BMJ Quality & Safety, 30:1031-1037.