Body of Knowledge by David Claudio and Jon Boyer

February 2023

Applying BoK to high reliability healthcare

A high reliability organization (HRO) is a sociotechnical system framework for operations management, incident investigation, error elimination and risk management. It was developed and implemented in highrisk industries like aviation, nuclear power, chemical manufacturing and wildland firefighting. It is a major framework healthcare organizations use to improve safety.


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