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safety tipping point: a standalone construct

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Healthcare operations

a level of ward occupancy above which patient mortality rises sharply, indicating a threshold in how workload harms safety.

In healthcare operations, safety tipping point refers to a level of ward occupancy above which patient mortality rises sharply, indicating a threshold in how workload harms safety. This meaning comes from Kuntz (2015) in Management Science.[1]

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References

Kuntz, L., Mennicken, R., & Scholtes, S. (2015). Stress on the Ward: Evidence of Safety Tipping Points in Hospitals. Management Science, 61(4), 754-771. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.1917

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