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Ambiguity and workarounds as contributors to medical error

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SJ Spear, M Schmidhofer - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians
Why are some organizations error-prone—regularly subject to in- terruptions
and inconveniences, some of which periodically coa- lesce
catastrophically—whereas other organizations, although sim- ilar in the ...
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Driving improvement in patient care: lessons from Toyota


DN Thompson, GA Wolf, SJ Spear - Journal of Nursing Administration, 2003 - journals.lww.com
Nurses today are attempting to do more with less while grappling with faulty
error-prone systems that do not focus on patients at the point of care. This
struggle occurs against a backdrop of rising national concern over the ...
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Work-arounds in health care settings: Literature review and research agenda


JRB Halbesleben, DS Wakefield, BJ … - Health Care Management Review, 2008 - journals.lww.com
Skip Navigation Links Home > January/March 2008 - Volume 33 - Issue 1 >
Work-arounds in health care settings: Literature review and... ... Halbesleben,
Jonathon RB; Wakefield, Douglas S.; Wakefield, Bonnie J.
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Fixing healthcare from the inside: Teaching residents to heal broken delivery processes as …


SJ Spear - Academic Medicine, 2006 - journals.lww.com
There is a marked gap between the potential of medical science to treat illness
and injury and the performance of the health care system in which hard- working,
intelligent, well-trained people put that science to work. Care is ...
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[PDF] Lean Sigma—Will It Work for Healthcare?


JA Bahensky, J Roe, R Bolton - Journal of Healthcare Information Management—Vol, 2005 - Citeseer
Introduction For many years, the manufacturing community has been using the Lean
Sigma process in the pursuit of continuous improvement. Lean Sigma was adapted
from blending the Lean Management and Six Sigma quality improvement ...
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Hassles: Their importance to nurses' quality of work life


LE Beaudoin, L Edgar - Nursing Economics, 2003 - medscape.com
A hassle is defined as "a state of confusion, turmoil; an annoying or
troublesome concern" (Merriam-Webster, 1998). Within their work environments,
nurses face numerous daily hassles that affect their work lives. These ...
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The impact of operational failures on hospital nurses and their patients

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AL Tucker - Journal of Operations Management, 2004 - Elsevier
Operational failures in healthcare can hinder employees, potentially decreasing
both productivity and quality of care. At the same time, regulatory agencies,
industry experts, and consumers increasingly demand that health care ...
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Reducing waste and errors: piloting lean principles at Intermountain Healthcare

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C Jimmerson, D Weber, DK Sobek - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient …, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
W hen applying principles from the Toyota Production System (TPS), observers are
repeatedly surprised to discover just how much waste exists in their day-to-day
work—as much as 35%. 1 One reason is that how processes should ideally ...
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Using real-time problem solving to eliminate central line infections

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AH Shannon, PH O'Neill - Infection Prevention and Control: Current Research and …, 2007 - books.google.com
SECTION 1 CHAPTER 3 Using Real-Time Problem Solving to Eliminate Central Line
Infections Richard P. Shannon, MD Diane Frndak, MBA, PA-C. Naida Grunden Jon C.
Lloyd, MD Cheryl Herbert, RN Bhavin Patel, MD Daniel Cummins Alexander H. ...
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Performance obstacles of intensive care nurses

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AP Gurses, P Carayon - Nursing Research, 2007 - journals.lww.com
This study was supported by a Health Services Research Dissertation Grant (#1
R36 HS14517) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The authors
would like to thank the participating ICU nurses, their supervisors, and ...
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