Can we import improvements from industry to healthcare?

Carl Macrae; Kevin Stewart

doi:10.1136/bmj.l1039

Can we import improvements from industry to healthcare?

BMJ. 2019 Mar 21:364:l1039. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l1039.

Authors

Carl Macrae¹, Kevin Stewart²

Affiliations

¹ University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Business School, Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning, Nottingham, UK.
² Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, Farnborough, UK.

Abstract

Healthcare has more to learn from other industries, including aviation—but it’s more complex than we think argue Carl Macrae and Kevin Stewart

MeSH terms

Checklist
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Delivery of Health Care / standards*
Humans
Industry / standards*
Medical Errors / prevention & control
Patient Safety / standards
Quality Improvement
Root Cause Analysis / methods
Safety Management / methods
Translational Research, Biomedical / methods