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  • Healthcare Systems Engineering
  • Patient Safety Science
  • Risk Management

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  • Current risk identification practices in healthcare are insufficient for ensuring patient safety.
  • Lessons from safety-critical industries like aviation and chemical sectors offer potential improvements.
  • There is a growing need for proactive risk management in healthcare delivery systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate current risk identification practices in healthcare.
  • To examine the potential of systems approaches for enhancing healthcare risk identification.
  • To develop and evaluate a systems-based approach, the Risk Identification Framework (RID Framework).

Main Methods:

  • Review of current healthcare risk identification practices.
  • Examination of systems approaches from other safety-critical industries.
  • Development of the Risk Identification Framework (RID Framework).
  • Application and evaluation of the RID Framework in a real-world healthcare setting.

Main Results:

  • The RID Framework facilitates the proactive identification of new risks by utilizing multiple inputs and methods.
  • Application and evaluation in a healthcare setting yielded positive results.
  • The study highlights the need for further research into the RID Framework's application.

Conclusions:

  • The RID Framework offers a promising approach to enhance risk identification in healthcare.
  • Integrating systems-based approaches can lead to safer healthcare designs and proactive risk management.
  • Further research is warranted to fully explore the potential of the RID Framework in diverse healthcare contexts.