Australian Patient Safety Foundation

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Recent Articles

Regulating clinical practice.

Runciman WB, Lumby J.

In: Healy J and Dugdale P, editors. Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009:192-220.

2009

Book chapter

Health service accreditation as a predictor of clinical and organizational performance: a blinded, random, stratified study.

Braithwaite J, Greenfield D, Westbrook J, Pawsey M, Westbrook M, Gibberd R, Naylor J, Nathan S, Robinson M, Runciman B, Jackson M, Travaglia J, Johnston B, Yen D, McDonald H, Low L, Redman S, Johnson B, Corbett A, Hennessy D, Clark J, Lancaster J.

Health service accreditation as a predictor of clinical and organizational performance: a blinded, random, stratified study. Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:14-21.

2010

Journal article

Towards safer, better healthcare: harnessing the natural properties of complex sociotechnical systems

J Braithwaite, W B Runciman and A F Merry

Qual. Saf. Health Care 2009;18;37-41

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Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: key concepts and terms

Runciman W. Hibbert P. Thomson R. Van Der Schaaf T. Sherman H. Lewalle P.

International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 21(1):18-26, 2009 Feb.

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Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: a Delphi survey

Thomson R. Lewalle P. Sherman H. Hibbert P. Runciman W. Castro G.

International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 21(1):9-17, 2009 Feb.

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