System failure versus personal accountability: The case for clean hands

Goldmann D. System failure versus personal accountability: The case for clean hands. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006 Jul 13;355(2):121-123.

 

This article states that if we really are serious about making care safer, we need to find the right balance between blaming mistakes on systems and holding individual providers accountable for their everyday practices.

 

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