title: Improving patient safety within the context of everyday chaos and complexity.
abstract: Complexity and chaos inherent in health care initiate opportunities for errors and make it difficult to improve patient safety. Effectively improving patient safety requires embracing the complex health care environment, care processes, and patients.
authors.affiliation: Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. ronda.hughes@marquette.edu
authors.forename: Ronda G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Hughes
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012308:Risk Management / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards*; D013598:Systems Theory