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Towards a unified model of accident causation: refining and validating the systems thinking safety tenets.

May 10, 2023

Salmon PM, Hulme A, Walker GH, et al. Ergonomics. 2023;66(5):644-657.

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Systems thinking concepts are used by healthcare organizations to encourage learning from failures and identifying solutions to complex patient safety problems. This article outlines a refined and validated set of systems thinking tenets and discusses how they can be used to proactively identify threats to patient safety.

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