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Patient Safety, Knowledge Creation and the Absorptive Capacity of Rural Hospitals

Madeline Adcock

Tara Duva

Debbie Verrett

Jennie Godkin

Patient safety is a priority issue in health care and rural hospitals face unique circumstances in this arena. This article applies the concepts of organisational learning in general and absorptive capacity in particular to the efforts by rural hospitals to continuously improve patient safety performance. Strategies are discussed through which rural hospitals might better identify patient safety related information, techniques and technologies and convert them to organisational use.

Journal of Health Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, 191-202 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/097206340801000202


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