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dc.contributor.authorDekker, Sidney WA
dc.contributor.authorLeveson, Nancy G
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-15T03:05:55Z
dc.date.available2018-03-15T03:05:55Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn2044-5415
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003106
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/99183
dc.description.abstractThe ‘systems approach’ to patient safety in healthcare has recently led to questions about its ethics and practical utility. In this viewpoint, we clarify the systems approach by examining two popular misunderstandings of it: (1) the systematisation and standardisation of practice, which reduces actor autonomy; (2) an approach that seeks explanations for success and failure outside of individual people. We argue that both giving people a procedure to follow and blaming the system when things go wrong misconstrue the systems approach.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBMJ
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7
dc.relation.ispartofpageto9
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBMJ Quality & Safety
dc.relation.ispartofvolume24
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCurriculum and pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3901
dc.titleThe systems approach to medicine: controversy and misconceptions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDekker, Sidney


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