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Friday, August 4, 2023

Real Systems Pursue Goals

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System Model Control Panel On March 10, 2023 we posted about a medical journal editorial that advocated for incorporating more systems think...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The National Academies on Behavioral Economics

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Report cover A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee recently published a report * on the contribution...
Friday, March 10, 2023

A Systems Approach to Diagnosis in Healthcare Emergency Departments

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JAMA logo A recent op-ed* in JAMA advocated greater use of systems thinking to reduce diagnostic errors in emergency departments (EDs).  Th...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

A Road Map for Reducing Diagnostic Errors in Healthcare

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A recent article * about how to reduce diagnostic errors in healthcare caught our attention, for a couple of reasons.  First, it describes a...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Culture in the Healthcare Industry

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A couple of articles recognizing the importance of cultural factors in the healthcare space recently caught our attention.  The authors brea...
Friday, July 29, 2022

A Lesson from the Accounting Profession: Don’t Cheat on the Ethics Test

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SEC Order Accounting, like many professions, requires practitioners to regularly demonstrate competence and familiarity with relevant knowle...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Guiding People to Better Decisions: Lessons from Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

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Safetymatters reports on organizational culture, the values and beliefs that underlie an organization’s essential activities.   One such act...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Criminalization of Safety in Healthcare?

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On March 25, 2022 a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negl...