Dan Bucsko: Imbedding safety culture in health care

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Achieving quality and safety in health care has been fraught with challenges over the past decade. Amidst cases of costly clinical malpractices, healthcare patient safety and risk management experts like Dan Bucsko recognize the timely need to come up with more efficient and effective healthcare risk management practices. But they warn against half-hearted efforts and suggest a vital first step—the creation of safety culture in modern health care practices.

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Enabling the science of patient safety to continue to grow means bringing the whole healthcare sector back to its cornerstone of duty and responsibility—patient care and safety. This may be just one leap forward, but it’s a big stride towards the main objective of healing the system that easily breaks down against suspicions, distrust, and career-ending saga of much-publicized and finance-draining litigations. Dan Bucsko and other healthcare risk management experts encourage the sector to veer away from the “blame culture” and start going back to the “safety culture.” In the first place, any design for effective reform must start at something realistic—and yes, personal.

Rooting out the problems deeply embedded in the system is not an easy task, but all healing must come from within. Thus, patient care error mitigation must begin at culture reform. The stakes are too high, and if the system has to grow, this is the first step and the right course.

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