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Isqua16-1646how to Achieve Safety Excellence on Elderly Medical Wards: a Positive Deviance Approach
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Baxter, Rosario Taylor, N. Kellar, Ian Lawton, Rebecca |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Within healthcare, the limited success of deficit based approaches in improving patient safety has led to an increasing focus on ‘how things go right most of the time’. Positive deviance, an asset based approach, learns from those who demonstrate exceptional performance despite facing similar constraints as others. This study applies the positive deviance approach to generate hypotheses about the abstract behaviours and concrete strategies that staff on positively deviant elderly medical wards use to deliver exceptionally safe patient care. A qualitative study was … |
| Starting Page | 38 |
| Ending Page | 39 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1093/intqhc/mzw104.59 |
| Volume Number | 28 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://yqsr.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ruth-baxter-isqua-2016.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc%2Fmzw104.59 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |