Building Cultures Of High Reliability: Lessons From The High Reliability Organization Paradigm

In November 2023, the Patient Safety Network (PS Net) wrote this article about organizational reliability in the setting of anesthesiology and perioperative care. Achieving high reliability remains difficult for many organizations. This article provides a brief history of the concept of high reliability organizations (HROs) and key features of high reliability culture, such as fostering trust and respect among teams and creating systems and processes to elicit feedback/reflections and identify opportunities for improvement . . .