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The Patient’s Role in Patient Safety

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019
Keeping patients safe while they receive medical care is essential. Yet current systems designed to ensure patient safety are not enough, because medical error is the third leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States. Clinicians can partner with the patient to enhance patient safety.
Ilene, Corina, Marissa, Abram, David, Halperin   +2 more
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2017
E-learning sessions to support the Freedom to Speak Up review of education and training in patient safety have been produced by NHS Health Education England.
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Integrating Patient Safety Indicators into Patient Safety Programs

Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2006
Patient safety indicators (PSIs) can be a valuable reporting tool to incorporate into patient safety plans to monitor performance and identify areas that warrant further investigation. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed PSIs as a low-cost tool to enable hospitals to monitor safety patterns within specific patient ...
Juliana, Hart, Geraldine, Sweeney
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Patient safety and patient error

The Lancet, 2007
1which reports that “patients make errors too”. Indeed, at fi rst glance it seems nonsensical to suggest otherwise, not least since the same observation has been made several times over the past half century. 2–4 Yet the contribution of patients (and their caregivers) to medical error has been discussed only rarely.
Buetow, S., Elwyn, G.
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Finding the patient in patient safety

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2013
In the last decade, the field of patient safety has grappled with the complexity of health-care systems by attending to the activity of frontline clinicians. This article extends the field by highlighting the activity of patients and their carers in determining the safety of these systems. We draw on data from three studies exploring patients’ accounts
Su-yin, Hor, Natalya, Godbold, Aileen, Collier, Rick, Iedema   +3 more
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2008
The National Patient Safety Agency has developed a training pack designed to improve awareness of how factors can combine to increase risk to patients.
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Patient Safety at the Crossroads

JAMA, 2016
This Viewpoint discusses the National Patient Safety Foundation’s report Free From Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement 15 Years After “To Err Is Human” and whether the recommendations achieve total systems safety.
Tejal K, Gandhi, Donald M, Berwick, Kaveh G, Shojania   +2 more
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Profiles in Patient Safety: Organizational Barriers to Patient Safety

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2002
A 46-year-old woman presented to the trauma unit with a history of being trapped in a house fire. The trauma team, composed of a trauma surgery (TS) attending, an emergency medicine (EM) attending, four EM and surgery residents, and two trauma nurses, met the patient at arrival.
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Blueprint for Patient Safety

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2006
This article outlines a plan called the Blueprint for Patient Safety, which one organization has used to implement a comprehensive patient safety program. The blueprint starts with a graphic that depicts the basic objectives of patient safety and clarifies the sometimes misunderstood relationship between patient safety and more traditional quality ...
Polly, Stevens, Anne, Matlow, Ronald M, Laxer   +2 more
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Patient safety first

Veterinary Record, 2018
I am writing in response to the debate about the recruitment and retention crisis in the veterinary profession. I have recently completed a research project into the patient-safety culture in British small animal practice. The project demonstrated the significant gulf in standards between veterinary and human medicine.
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