June 1, 2011

When staff speak up on safety, do managers listen–and act?

By: Pat Patterson
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Checklists, time-outs, and other patient safety tools are supposed to make care safer. But what happens when a safety tool alerts a team to a problem that otherwise would have been missed and could harm a patient? Will team members speak up?

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