Resilience in healthcare and clinical handover
BMJ Quality & SafetyPublished 1 August 2009
Shelly Jeffcott, Joseph Ibrahim, Peter Cameron
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Resilience can benefit patient safety efforts because it represents a change in emphasis from a traditional, reactive focus on errors to seeing humans as a defence against failure.
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Resilience can benefit patient safety efforts because it represents a change in emphasis from a traditional, reactive focus on errors to seeing humans as a defence against failure. Translating this concept into practice requires identifying and testing mechanisms for measuring and building resilience within complex healthcare processes.
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