Table of contents

Safety by design

• Quality and safety by design (1 December, 2006)

  J B Battles
• Design of high reliability organizations in health care (1 December, 2006)

  J S Carroll, J W Rudolph
• Understanding the complexity of redesigning care around the clinical microsystem (1 December, 2006)

  P Barach, J K Johnson
• Issues in the design of training for quality and safety (1 December, 2006)

  K Henriksen, E Dayton
• Improving patient safety by instructional systems design (1 December, 2006)

  J B Battles
• Use of assessment to reinforce patient safety as a habit (1 December, 2006)

  R M Galbraith, M C Holtman, S G Clyman
• Safe design of healthcare facilities (1 December, 2006)

  J Reiling
• On the complexity of medical devices and systems (1 December, 2006)

  J W Senders
• Mistake proofing: changing designs to reduce error (1 December, 2006)

  J R Grout
• Work system design for patient safety: the SEIPS model (1 December, 2006)

  P Carayon, A Schoofs Hundt, B-T Karsh, A P Gurses, C J Alvarado, M Smith, P Flatley Brennan
• A human factors engineering paradigm for patient safety: designing to support the performance of the healthcare professional (1 December, 2006)

  B-T Karsh, R J Holden, S J Alper, C K L Or
• Violations and migrations in health care: a framework for understanding and management (1 December, 2006)

  R Amalberti, C Vincent, Y Auroy, G de Saint Maurice
• Accidents waiting to happen: the contribution of latent conditions to patient safety (1 December, 2006)

  C M Lowe
• Why did that happen? Exploring the proliferation of barely usable software in healthcare systems (1 December, 2006)

  C W Johnson
• An integrated framework for safety, quality and risk management: an information and incident management system based on a universal patient safety classification (1 December, 2006)

  W B Runciman, J A H Williamson, A Deakin, K A Benveniste, K Bannon, P D Hibbert