[The full risk based thinking management approach in Italian Healthcare Organizations 20 years after the publication of the book "To err is human"].

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic event as an unexpected, non-preventable, unpredictable event in its many peculiarities requires a new reflection on the coordination of health risk management activities in Italian Healthcare Organizzations and the search for new skills that must be possessed by professionals who they cover the function of risk manager, documenting that the current approach to the safety of care requires an up date. In fact, it is necessary to rediscover a new paradigm in the area of health risk monitoring, prevention and management and the development of treatment safety strategies.