Re:How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
by namenotrequired on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:08PM
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It's interesting the subtitle mentions "patients" when the entire text applies fully for very different contexts, say, cruise ships
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Relative to aviation, nuclear power, and perhaps cruise ships, the spilled blood of victims of those complex systems resulted in improvements[0][1], while in healthcare the seminal text appeared first in 1999.[2] Healthcare has a lot to learn from other industries with inherent complexity.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife_airport_disaster#Lega...
[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3...