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using scrum for patient safety

Last post 03:16 pm September 3, 2024 by Hatim Mustafa
3 replies
12:13 pm August 29, 2024

Dear All 

Iam medical consultant and iam interested to use scrum for patient  safety , Iam sure scrum will work as most of the patient safety issues arised  from lack of communication . work in silos and authority  gradients 

any one have an experiences or case studies 

thanks 


03:23 pm August 29, 2024

Overcoming silos and scaling meaningful conversations in outpatient care: https://www.scrum.org/resources/how-net-health-scales-scrum-nexus-framework


03:30 pm August 30, 2024

Scrum might work in your situation. But you have given us a very broad category..."patient safety".  That covers a lot of different medical specialties and many patients.  I know of places where Scrum practices have been introduced into medical process.  Personally, I worked with my wife to introduce some practices into a Medical Laboratory at at hospital where she worked.  

I did a simple web search using my favorite search engine for the phrase "scrum for patient safety".  There were many results that briefly discussed it and a couple of links to case studies.  What I found is that many of the links did not take a general approach but focused on specific areas of patient safety/care to improve. You might want to start with that approach so that you can familiarize yourself with the landscape. 

Iam sure scrum will work as most of the patient safety issues arised  from lack of communication . work in silos and authority  gradients 

I also suggest that you read the Scrum Guide (https://scrumguides.org/) and familiarize yourself with the Scrum framework.  The framework works in areas where there are complex problems to solve in order to incrementally improve a Product.  You will need to be able to accurately define the Product and describe the needed improvements.  

Some of the agile practices from the various frameworks and methodologies might be useful to apply and create your own kind of "agility" but again, I feel like that would apply to the specific problems that you are attempting to solve. 


02:03 pm September 3, 2024

thanks a lot for your reply I totally agree with you that scrum is framework and agile is the mind set 

I tried to search with different approach such as psychological culture , medical error and human factor engineering but Unfortunately did not find much 

I appreciate if you can share any aspect of patient safety , based on health sector which characterized by high complex adaptive system and lack of team and communication are common  cause of sentinel events 

thanks again 


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