Designing healthcare organizations to reduce medical errors and enhance patient safety.
Medical errors and patient safety are urgent healthcare management challenges. To date, not enough has occurred to provide a systematic organizational design framework for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety. The authors offer such a framework by integrating multiple organizational factors and using well-accepted organization theory, citing relevant empirical research studies of medical errors and patient safety to support specific organizational factors. They discuss organizational design implications and recommendations for healthcare executives.
Olden
Peter C
PC
Graduate Health Administration Program, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
McCaughrin
William C
WC
D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States