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Re-examining high reliability: actively organising for safety

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  • Kathleen M Sutcliffe Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lori Paine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Medical Affairs, Patient Safety, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter J Pronovost Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Peter J Pronovost, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 750 E. Pratt Street, 15th floor, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA; ppronovo{at}jhmi.edu
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Sutcliffe KM, Paine L, Pronovost PJ
Re-examining high reliability: actively organising for safety
BMJ Quality & Safety 2017;26:248-251.

Publication history

  • Received August 10, 2015
  • Revised February 19, 2016
  • Accepted February 24, 2016
  • First published March 21, 2016.
Online issue publication 
February 16, 2017

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