TY - JOUR T1 - SEIPS 101 and seven simple SEIPS tools JF - BMJ Quality & Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 901 LP - 910 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2020-012538 VL - 30 IS - 11 AU - Richard J Holden AU - Pascale Carayon Y1 - 2021/11/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/30/11/901.abstract N2 - In the past 15 years, SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety)1–3 and related conceptual models4 5 were developed to study and improve healthcare. These theoretical models depict how work systems affect health-related outcomes, such as patient safety, and can be used to guide research and improvement efforts. Various versions of the SEIPS model have been used by academics and practitioners, but a recent review argued that broader use and benefits can be achieved through ‘an easy-to-use version of the model and simplified tools for model application’.6 This concords with repeated requests we have received for simple, practical tools to apply SEIPS and with the general critique regarding the dearth of easy to use systems engineering tools.7 Accordingly, we offer SEIPS 101, a simplified, practice-oriented SEIPS model meant for easy use by practitioners, researchers and others, regardless of prior familiarity with SEIPS. We also for the first time present seven simple SEIPS tools virtually anyone can use off-the-shelf.The SEIPS model is a theoretical model rooted in human-centred systems engineering or ‘human factors/ergonomics’.8 9 All versions of the model depict three major components, the work system, processes and outcomes; key characteristics or factors of each; and how the components affect one another. The SEIPS model has been used to understand or design sociotechnical systems and has supported evaluation, planning and research activities. The first version of the SEIPS model was published in 2006 in this journal by Carayon and colleagues,1 based on work dating to the 1980s.10–12 The next addition to the SEIPS family was SEIPS 2.0, proposed by Holden et al 3 primarily to address the work done by patients, families and other non-professionals. SEIPS 2.0 made theoretical expansions to the work system, processes and outcomes components and introduced the configural diagram … ER -