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Patient safety: sharing new evidence to confront a global crisis
Journal of Research in Nursing, 2021
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she served as the founding Associate Dean for Global Initiatives. She is co-developer of the award-winning Quality and Safety Education for Nurses, which has been implemented internationally. She is co-editor of four books on quality and safety in nursing.
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2012
Medical errors and adverse events are a serious threat to patients worldwide. In recent years methodologically sound studies have demonstrated that interventions exist, can be implemented and can have sustainable, measurable positive effects on patient safety. Nonetheless, system-wide progress and adoption of safety practices is slow and evidence of improvements on the organisational and systems level is scarce and ambiguous. This paper reports on the Swiss Patient Safety Conference in 2011 and addresses emerging issues for patient safety and future challenges.
False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice Editorial
2017
In response to a weight of evidence that patients are frequently harmed as a result of their care, there have been concerted efforts to make healthcare safer, with health systems across the globe investing significant resources in policies and programmes designed to reduce adverse events. Yet, despite extensive efforts, improvements in safety have proved difficult to sustain and spread, with studies confirming there has been no measurable, systems-level improvement in the overall rates of preventable harm. Here, we highlight the limitations of the thinking which underpins current efforts to make healthcare systems safer and point to new and emerging approaches to understanding and addressing patient safety in complex, dynamic health systems. Citation: Mannion R, Braithwaite J. False dawns and new horizons in patient safety research and practice.
Patient Safety—Ten Years Later
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2010
December 1, 2009 was the tenth anniversary of To Err is Human, 1 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on medical errors in the health care system. Dr. Wachter notes that this report "arguably launched the modern patient-safety movement." 2 In an updated analysis, Wachter looks at the progress that has been made since that initial report and also gives an in-depth description of the gaps that are still present. How would you grade patient safety progress over the past ten years? In this article, Wachter looks at ten domains of patient safety and assigns a grade representing progress, or lack of progress in the area. See Box 1. Wachter's overall grade for progress is a Be, better than the C1 he gave it in 2004. 2 You can read Dr. Wachter's article for details, but there were a few important points I want to discuss.
The Business Case for Patient Safety
Healthcare quarterly ( …, 2006
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HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2016
Patient safety is the #1 priority for healthcare! Since the landmark publication, To Err is Human, stating that nearly 90,000 people die annually from medical errors, there has been increased awareness about the safety of patients in hospitals and other healthcare environments (Kohn, Corrigan, & Donaldson, 2000). Patient safety has been the converging focus of multiple agencies such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the American Hospital Association, the Institute for Health Improvement, the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Leapfrog Group, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, and numerous government-sponsored academies of science. The patient safety problem is recalcitrant, and patient and organizational data have not demonstrated significant improvements in patient safety quality indicators over the past decade (Small, 2015), although there has been some reductions in rates of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) from 2010 to 2014 (Barnet, Green, & Punke, 2016). Clearly, there is significant room for improvement in realizing the goal of zero patient harm.