title: Creating effective leadership for improving patient safety.
abstract: Leadership has emerged as a key theme in the rapidly growing movement to improve patient safety. Leading an organization that is committed to providing safer care requires overcoming the common traps in thinking about error, such as blaming individuals, ignoring the underlying systems factors, and blaming the bureaucracy of the organization. Leaders must address the system issues that are at work within their organizations to allow individual and organizational learning to occur.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago Children's Hospital, Chicago, USA.
authors.forename: Julie J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Mohr
authors.forename: Herbert T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Abelson
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Barach
mesh_terms: D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States