title: [Process design in high-reliability organizations].
abstract: Modern medicine is a highly complex service industry in which individual care providers are linked in a complicated network. The complexity and interlinkedness is associated with risks concerning patient safety. Other highly complex industries like commercial aviation have succeeded in maintaining or even increasing its safety levels despite rapidly increasing passenger figures. Standard operating procedures (SOPs), crew resource management (CRM), as well as operational risk evaluation (ORE) are historically developed and trusted parts of a comprehensive and systemic safety program. If medicine wants to follow this quantum leap towards increased patient safety, it must intensively evaluate the results of other high-reliability industries and seek step-by-step implementation after a critical assessment.
authors.affiliation: smacmed, Bad Sulza-Ring 2b, 65520, Bad Camberg, Deutschland, sommer@smacmed.de.
authors.forename: K-J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Sommer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kranz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Steffens
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005858:Germany; D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D040841:Resource Allocation / Q000458:organization & administration; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*
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