Journal article
First do no harm: practitioners’ ability to ‘diagnose’ system weaknesses and improve safety is a critical initial step in improving care quality
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Healthcare systems across the world and especially those in low-resource settings (LRS) are under pressure and one of the first priorities must be to prevent any harm done while trying to deliver care. Health care workers, especially department leaders, need the diagnostic abilities to identify local safety concerns and design actions that benefit their patients. We draw on concepts from the safety sciences that are less well-known than mainstream quality improvement techniques in LRS. We use...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/archdischild-2020-320630
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Archives of Disease in Childhood Journal website
- Volume:
- 106
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 326-332
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-01-24
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1468-2044
- ISSN:
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0003-9888
- Pmid:
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33361068
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1151899
- Local pid:
- pubs:1151899
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-16
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- Copyright holder:
- English et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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