title: Designing healthcare organizations to reduce medical errors and enhance patient safety.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Health Administration Program, University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: Peter C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Olden
authors.forename: William C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: McCaughrin
mesh_terms: D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States