Patient Safety Strategies in Psychiatry and How They Construct the Notion of Preventable Harm: A Scoping Review

Conclusions The strategies that are supported in the literature to achieve safer psychiatry mainly arise from linear cause-effect models and rely on staff performance, competence, and compliance. Contemporary safety science acknowledges the performance variability of everyday normal work and sees risk as the dynamic migration of these daily activities. The field of psychiatry has not yet included this view of safety in the strategic actions to reduce preventable harm.
Source: Journal of Patient Safety - Category: Health Management Tags: The Health Care Manager Source Type: research