Improving patient safety reporting with the common formats: Common data representation for Patient Safety Organizations

Improving the Value of Patient Safety Reporting Systems

Use of patient safety reporting systems (PSRS) to identify and mitigate risks to patients who are harmed by medical care has been a national priority for nearly a decade. Yet, most reporting systems are still new and focus on reporting events. To improve the value of PSRS, we must use the data to identify safety hazards, prioritize where to focus resources, develop interventions to mitigate the...

Improving patient safety.

Finding a common language for patient safety in CKD.

Improving patient safety has become a primary objective of health systems; however, the frequency of adverse safety events continues to be unacceptable despite the attention and dedicated efforts of many stakeholders. CKD that does not require dialysis increases the risk for adverse safety events, and adverse safety events can account for a substantial portion of the poor outcomes typical of CK...

Crossing to safety: transforming healthcare organizations for patient safety.

The current healthcare system is not designed to ensure better patient safety. In addition, healthcare is simultaneously becoming increasingly complex and increasingly fragmented. Medical knowledge and technology are expanding at an incredible rate, making it difficult for the healthcare providers to keep pace with advancing knowledge. Patients' needs are changing too: shifting from the diagnos...

Canadian patient safety champions: collaborating on improving patient safety.

Patients for Patient Safety Canada champions have grown in numbers and purpose since their initiation into the World Health and Pan-American Health Organizations' Patients for Patient Safety initiative in May 2006. The 25 Canadian patients and family members not only share their adverse event experiences but are actively engaged in collaboration with health professionals, administrators and dec...