A Culture of “Surgical” Patient Safety · Medical Director of Patient Safety Medical Director...
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MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University, affiliated since 1914,
partners in advancing patient care through research and teaching.
MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University, affiliated since 1914,
partners in advancing patient care through research and teaching.
A Culture of “Surgical” Patient
Safety
Joseph F. Golob Jr. MD FACS CPHQ
Medical Director of Patient Safety
Medical Director of SICU and TICU
Program Director – Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
MetroHealth Medical Center
MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University, affiliated since 1914,
partners in advancing patient care through research and teaching.
Objectives1. What is culture and specifically what is a
culture of safety?
2. Describe the key components to a patient
safety culture: leadership, psychological
safety, accountability, teamwork and
negotiation.
3. Google’s model of culture
4. What can you do to foster a culture of
safety?
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1999 IOM report: 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year from preventable medical mistakes
“The equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing everyday with no survivors”
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partners in advancing patient care through research and teaching.
© 2016 BMJ Publishing Group LTDMakary MA, Michael D. Medical error-the third leading cause of death in the US. BMJ 2016; 353:i2139
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How do we improve?
© 2017 Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Safe & Reliable Healthcare
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What is culture?
The way of life, especially thegeneral customs and beliefs, of
a particular group of peopleat a particular time
“Surgical Dogma”“Because we have done it that way for years”
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What is a patient safety culture?
“A culture in which healthcare professionals are held accountable for unprofessional conduct, yet not
punished for human mistakes; errors are identified and mitigated before harm occurs; and systems are in
place to enable staff to learn from errors and near-misses and prevent recurrence”(AHRQ PSNet Safety Culture – 2014)
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What is a patient safety culture?
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Why is culture so important?
American management consultant, educator and author.“Founder of modern management”
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Framework for Clinical
Excellence: Leadership
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Leaders (Surgeons) and Culture
Leaders have 4 main responsibilities:1. Guard the learning system – transparency, applying
improvement and reliability science, and inspiring staff2. Creating psychological safety – making sure everyone
including patients/families can voice concerns3. Fostering trust – creating environment of non-
negotiable trust4. Ensuring value alignment – applying organization
values to every decision
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Surgeons and Culture
Performance
Behaviors
Values
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Framework for Clinical Excellence:
Psychological Safety
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Psychological Safety
• Originated with James Reason’s book,
Managing the Risks of Organizational
Accidents.
• Popularized by Amy Edmondson’s book,
Teaming
It is more than “I can speak up
about concerns”
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Psychological Safety
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Psychological Safety and
Retained Surgical Sponges
Steelman VM, et al. Retained Surgical Sponges: a descriptive study of occurrences and contributing factors from 2012 to 2017. Patient Surg. 12:20, 2018
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Key Components of
Psychological Safety1. Anyone can ask questions without
looking stupid
2. Anyone can ask for feedback without
looking incompetent
3. Anyone can be respectfully critical
without appearing negative
4. Anyone can suggest innovative ideas
without being perceived as disruptiveAdopted from Amy Edmondson, Teaming
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Framework for Clinical
Excellence: Accountability
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Accountability
We are held accountable for our
actions, but we are not accountable
for system flaws!
• Comes together with psychological safety
– You can’t have true psychological safety
without accountability
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Fair and Just Culture
• Requires a simple and precise algorithm
– Fosters an environment in which staff members
accept responsibility for their own actions…
– But know the organization will treat them fairly and
not blame them for things out of their control
• The literature presents a few different
accountability algorithms
– David Marx, Just Culture Algorithm
– James Reason, Incident Decision Tree
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Framework for Clinical
Excellence: Teamwork
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TeamSTEPPS
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Teamwork
• Huddles, Briefs and Debriefs
– Plan forward
– Reflect back
– Communicate clearly
– Manage risk
• Backbone of culture
• Must permeate through the entire
organization
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Teamwork and Communication
• Complete
– Communication all relevant information
• Clear
– Convey information that is plainly understood
• Brief
– Be concise
• Timely
– Offer / request information in the appropriate
time
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Framework for Clinical
Excellence: Negotiation
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Negotiating Styles
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Learning from Google: Building
the Perfect Culture• Project Aristotle
– Multimillion-dollar project conducted from
2012-2014
– Data gathered and assessed from 180
different Google teams
– No patterns of types of team members
detected why some teams succeeded and
others failed
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Learning from Google: Building
the Perfect Culture• “Group Norms” or unwritten and often
unspoken rules guiding behavior were
identified as the key to success
– Culture = Group Norms
• Who is on a team matters less than how
the team members interact, structure their
work, and view their contributions
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Google’s 5 Keys to Success
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What Can You Do to Get There?
• Know thy self
– Be aware of your patterns and how it affects the team
culture
– Make small adjustments that will increase the quality
and productivity of interactions
– Recognize your vulnerabilities and be open with them
in your team
• Be preoccupied with failure – never settle for
average care
• Support psychological safety in your teams and
throughout the hospital
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Valuable Culture Lesson
Technical expertise alone is
inadequate to keep our patients
safe, non-technical skills are just as
important