Strategies and tools to learn from work that goes well within healthcare patient safety practices: a mixed methods systematic review (2025)

Summary

Safety-II is a new approach to patient safety that is characterised by learning from work that goes well, including learning from success and work-as-done. Practical tools to facilitate this learning are starting to emerge within healthcare patient safety practices. In absence of a systematic review of such learning tools, the aim of the study was to provide an overview of strategies and tools for healthcare professionals to learn from work that goes well in healthcare patient safety practices.

The review shows a growing number of practical Safety-II tools, which may help understand and learn from the constant adaptations made by healthcare professionals every day to keep patients safe