Table of contents

Original Articles

• Learning from failure in health care: frequent opportunities, pervasive barriers (2 December, 2004)

  A C Edmondson
• Unlearning in health care (2 December, 2004)

  R Rushmer, H T O Davies
• Redirecting traditional professional values to support safety: changing organisational culture in health care (2 December, 2004)

  J S Carroll, M A Quijada
• A typology of organisational cultures (2 December, 2004)

  R Westrum
• Beyond the organisational accident: the need for “error wisdom” on the frontline (2 December, 2004)

  J Reason
• Integrating patient safety into the clinical microsystem (2 December, 2004)

  J Mohr, P Batalden, P Barach
• General attributes of safe organisations (2 December, 2004)

  P R Schulman
• Leadership for safety: industrial experience (2 December, 2004)

  R Flin, S Yule
• Implications for practice: challenges for healthcare leaders in fostering patient safety (2 December, 2004)

  S N Weingart, D Page