Quality and Simulation Professionals Should Collaborate

Amy Lu, May C.M. Pian-Smith, Amanda Burden, Gladys L. Fernandez, Sally A. Fortner, Robert V. Rege, Douglas P. Slakey, Jose M. Velasco, Jeffrey B. Cooper, Randolph H. Steadman

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Abstract

Simulation is underutilized as a tool to improve healthcare quality and safety despite many examples of its effectiveness to identify and remedy quality and safety problems, improve teamwork, and improve various measures of quality and safety that are important to healthcare organizations, eg, patient safety indicators. We urge quality and safety and simulation professionals to collaborate with their counterparts in their organizations to employ simulation in ways that improve the quality and safety of care of their patients. These collaborations could begin through initiating conversations among the quality and safety and simulation professionals, perhaps using this article as a prompt for discussion, identifying one area in need of quality and safety improvement for which simulation can be helpful, and beginning that work.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)882-889
Number of pages8
JournalJoint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Volume50
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2024

Keywords

  • Collaboration
  • Patient safety
  • Quality
  • Quality assurance
  • Quality improvement
  • Quality Improvement/organization & administration
  • Humans
  • Quality of Health Care/organization & administration
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Simulation Training/organization & administration
  • Patient Safety/standards
  • Patient Care Team/organization & administration

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Leadership and Management

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