By Federico Bilotta, Alessio Tramontana, Francesco Pugliese (Department of Anaesthesiology, “Umberto I” Policlinic-Hospital, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy) We embraced Resilience engineering (RE) in our Department of Anaesthesiology as a multidisciplinary approach to improve care delivery and patients’ safety and…
By Mark Sujan, Laura Pickup and Peter McCulloch on behalf of the RESPOND project team Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford Resilience Engineering and its healthcare-specific incarnation Resilient Health Care are coming of age, with the first Resilience…
By Tarcisio Abreu Saurin (Industrial Engineering Post-Graduation Program, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) The provision of slack is a common approach for coping with variability, as it reduces interdependencies and slows down the propagation of…