Patient Safety in Small Rural Hospitals

Engineer a Learning Culture

Engage and Educate

Learning disabilities can be fatal in organizations more...

A simple fable helps learning organizations overcome resistance to change more...

An Introduction to Patient Safety Principles for Rural Healthcare Providers and Governing Boards

Execute

Root cause analysis (RCA) retrospectively makes sense of a single event more…

The Joint Commission's testimony on the role of root cause analysis to reduce medical errors

Conducting individual root cause analysis in small rural hospitals

Sample root cause analysis agenda for small rural hospitals

Sample root cause analysis causal statement

The Joint Commission's framework for a root cause analysis and action plan

VA National Center for Patient Safety root cause analysis tools

Aggregate RCA retrospectively makes sense of multiple similar events more...

Conducting aggregate RCA in small rural hospitals

Evaluate

AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture more...

AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture - Resources

The Nebraska Center for Rural Health Research