title: A fragmented patient safety concept: the structure and culture of safety management in healthcare.
abstract: Safety in healthcare organizations is often an ownerless process with responsibility falling under a myriad of departments that individually are coordinating initiatives to improve aspects of safety. In contrast, other high-hazard industries seek to institutionalize safety management as a key characteristic of organizational culture. Healthcare seeks to model its approach to patient safety on other high-hazard industry models, but without an understanding of the impact of creating a uniform approach to safety management, healthcare organizations will not implement a similar organization-wide safety culture.
authors.affiliation: Texas Woman's University, USA.
authors.forename: Gerald R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Goodman
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019567:Back Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry / Q000592:standards; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States