Aviation safety rules can be adapted to prevent outpatient medical errors

摘要

Aviation safety principles can be adapted to outpatient care to prevent errors through risk management, a study shows. Dr Rachel Wilf-Miron, department of risk management, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and colleagues say that errors are normally seen as an expression of failure and that this creates an environment which precludes the fair and open discussion of mistakes. The principal aim in aviation safety is to prevent accidents through risk management.