Still Not SafePub Date : 2019-11-21DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0009
R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe
{"title":"Institutionalization","authors":"R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Unbridled optimism and a flurry of organizational activity followed the publication of To Err is Human. As patient safety became corporatized into new institutions and programs; it became mainstreamed and adopted by organized healthcare. Patient safety became dominated by a measure and manage approach. US hospitals added patient safety to existing quality, risk management and regulatory compliance bureaucracy. This internalization and incorporation led to a closing off of patient safety from influences outside of healthcare. Infection control and health information technology began to dominate safety efforts. Safety culture became a popular topic but in a narrow and instrumental way.","PeriodicalId":113540,"journal":{"name":"Still Not Safe","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134477389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Still Not SafePub Date : 2019-11-21DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0002
R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe
{"title":"Beginnings","authors":"R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The To Err is Human report rests upon a series of historical episodes—the early development of safety thinking in healthcare, the evolution of safety thinking in the safety sciences, and accumulating stories of personal suffering and tragedy experiences by patients. Concerns about the safety of healthcare date at least as far back as the Code of Hammurabi. Early efforts at improving safety appeared sporadically in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but these were isolated and not sustained. Malpractice concerns were also entangled with safety, and the first malpractice crisis in the United States came about due to advances, rather than deficiencies, in care. Public and governmental interest in safety more generally developed out of railway accidents in the nineteenth century. Notions of accidents evolved over time, moving from accident proneness to the domino model, to more complex models such as Reason’s Swiss cheese model. Libby Zion's death results in New York state legislation regulating medical trainees’ supervision and duty hours, marking a change from a self-regulating profession to a more typical service industry. Recognition that health professionals involved in adverse events are also, in a sense, victims begins to grow.","PeriodicalId":113540,"journal":{"name":"Still Not Safe","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127771666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Still Not SafePub Date : 2019-11-21DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0012
R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe
{"title":"The Future of Patient Safety","authors":"R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Patient safety has been evolving and changing since its conception, and this evolution will inevitably continue as it competes for attention with other social problems and as healthcare struggles with conflicts among increasing workloads, performance and production pressures, technological innovation, and increasingly limited human and economic resources. Patient safety is, at present, a reform movement becalmed, captured by the industry it set out to reform. The authors see four possible futures: congealing into bureaucracy (already in progress), rebranding as something else (similar to quality improvement rebranding itself as patient safety), simply dying out, or fundamental reform. Fundamental reform is unfortunately the least likely possibility. It will require healthcare to relinquish its dominant position in patient safety and to develop substantive, equal partnerships with safety sciences.","PeriodicalId":113540,"journal":{"name":"Still Not Safe","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130738752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Still Not SafePub Date : 2019-11-21DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0011
R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe
{"title":"Reflection","authors":"R. Wears, K. Sutcliffe","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271268.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewing the evolution of patient safety over time, we see a discursive shift from harm to “error.” The “error” framing is used to advance the authority of scientific-bureaucratic managerial medicine and to diminish the traditional authority of clinical expertise. Psychologist Sidney Dekker noted that four different voices appear in patient safety discourses: epistemological (what happened?), preventative (how can it be prevented?), boundary-maintaining (were there violations or impermissible activities?), and existential (what is the reason for this suffering?). Discussions in one voice tend to be dissatisfying for the others, but the “error” framing addresses all four: an error occurred, errors can be prevented, violators should be punished, moral wrong leads to suffering. In summary, patient safety’s rise resulted from five factors: a general decrease in risk tolerance, the industrialization of healthcare, reframing harm as “error,” brief input from safety sciences holding out potential for improvement, and medicine’s effort to retain control of healthcare internally. Ironically, these factors also tended to make patient safety activity ineffective since they bounded out insights, skills, and theories from the safety sciences.","PeriodicalId":113540,"journal":{"name":"Still Not Safe","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130425710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}