The VA Getting at Patient Safety (GAPS) Center is a unique partnership of clinicians, administrators, and experts in human performance funded to improve patient safety in healthcare. The Center's focus is on how gaps in continuity of care are bridged by practitioners, and its goal is to create the components of a "safety culture".

Mission:

• To create tools to support technical work in healthcare.
• To create understanding of predictable human performance failure and its impact in safety within and beyond the Veterans Health Administration.
• To create tools to move healthcare organizations toward a safety culture.
• The GAPS Center aims to create, test, validate, and refine tools for healthcare workers and managers to use in coping with threats to safety, taking advantage of state of the art research results.

Why GAPS?


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