Patient Safety Must be a Priority

Patient safety must be a priority in all aspects of care.

[Why rational drug use must be a priority?].

According to the World Health Organization, rational drug use means that patients receive medicines appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their individual requirements, for an adequate period of time, and at the lowest cost to them and their community. However, as far as one can see, the reality is very different. In Brazil, at least, 35% of medicines are purchased for self-me...

Patient safety: a European Union priority.

Every year in the 27 member states of the European Union, patients are harmed when receiving healthcare. Sometimes this is the fault of individual or multiple healthcare workers but more often than not organisational or system failures are to blame. The injuries and deaths from unsafe healthcare can never be completely eradicated. However, steps can be taken by policymakers and those responsibl...

Behavioral integrity for safety, priority of safety, psychological safety, and patient safety: a team-level study.

This article clarifies how leader behavioral integrity for safety helps solve follower's double bind between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols. Path modeling of survey data in 54 nursing teams showed that head nurse behavioral integrity for safety positively relates to both team priority of safety and psychological safety. In turn, team priority of sa...

Reproductive and Maternal Health in the Post-2015 Era: Cervical Cancer Must Be a Priority

1 Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 3 Evidence to Policy Initiative (E2Pi), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United State...