Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of error and other types...

A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. Common functions of...

The International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) were developed in 2006 by the Joint Commission International (JCI). The goals were adapted from the JCAHO's...

hospital patients die from preventable medical errors in the U.S. each year, early efforts focused on inpatient safety. While patient safety efforts have...

World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), observed annually on 17 September, aims to raise global awareness about patient safety and call for solidarity and united...

payment policies with greater focus on safety in addition to patient volumes. Furthermore, strategies for increased patient and caregiver engagement have been...

The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) was a special health authority of the National Health Service (NHS) in England. It was established in 2001 to...

for negligence under state law. The incident led Quaid to become a patient-safety advocate, producing a series of documentaries on preventable medical...

Organization (WHO) published the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008 in order to increase the safety of patients undergoing surgery. The checklist serves...

settings, and in the case of health care, diverse patients, and high patient-to-nurse staffing ratios. Most safety activities are reactive and not proactive....

incentivize hospitals to improve patient safety by measuring rates of hospital-acquired infection and other patient safety metrics and then penalizing hospitals...

The Patient Safety Commissioner is a UK public position, overseeing an independent advisory body of the same name. The position was created following the...

The National Patient Safety Goals is a quality and patient safety improvement program established by the Joint Commission in 2003. The NPSGs were established...

Retrieved April 14, 2017. Sibley Memorial Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine Patient Care Locations 38°56′11″N 77°06′32″W / 38.9365°N 77.109°W / 38.9365;...

Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care and Charting the Course: Launching Patient-Centric Healthcare. These books apply...

the action-oriented annual Patient Safety, Science & Technology summit. In 2017, at its 5th annual summit, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced...

occur and safety improvements can be made. David Marx expanded the concept of just culture into healthcare in his 2001 report, Patient Safety and the "Just...

community service. In 2012, Cook was named Sweden's First Professor of Patient Safety, at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where he served until 2015, when...

Personnel Management Quality Assurance Patient Safety Risk Management Hospital Safety Programs Radiation Safety Medical Gas Systems In-Service Education...

evaluating, improving, and demonstrating the quality of patient care; and enhancing patient safety in more than 60 countries. International hospitals may...

Johnson appointed Dorries as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health. In May 2020, she was promoted...

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA): Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 109–41 (text) (PDF), 42 U.S.C. ch. 6A subch....

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). Patient safety features The CPOE system allows real-time patient identification, drug dose recommendations,...

particular following a critical 2000 report which "arguably launched" the patient-safety movement. In the US, as of 2006 there were few organizations that systematically...

teams (RRT) at Kaiser Permanente in Colorado in 2002, to investigate patient safety. The main purpose was to alleviate communication problems traced from...

Competencies, Canadian Patient Safety Officer Course, Patient Safety Education Program, and the Advancing Safety for Patients in Residency (ASPIRE) program...

by the medical field over the past two decades in order to improve patient safety. Just culture views genuine errors as system failures and doesn't penalize...

The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) was an independent not-for-profit organization created in 1997 to advance the safety of health care workers...

hospital to set up a Patient Safety Department. The hospital established the department to centralize activities related to patient safety and to "be proactive...

in a patient's oxygen reserve, and may enable proactive interventions to avoid hypoxia and unintended hyperoxia.[citation needed] Patient SafetyNet is...