The Italian Society for Safety and Quality in Transplantation (SISQT).

The Italian Society for Safety and Quality in Transplantation (La Societâ Italiana per Ia Sicurezza e la Qualità nei Trapianti, SISQT) was founded in 2008 to bring quality and safety issues at the center of donation and transplantation practice. In doing so, the SISQT seeks to involve, all health care professionals across the continuum of donation and transplantation, championing a collaborative, inclusive, inter-disciplinary, inter-professional, and multi-stakeholder approach, in order to ease translation of the results of research into clinical practice. The program of the SISQT aims to (1) set a patient safety agenda with all professionals and stakeholders; (2) design and implement patient-centered care processes and procedures; 3) help professionals harmonize and integrate operational practice with policy and regulatory mandates of the European union; (3) lay the scientific evidence on management of complex care across the continuum of donation and transplantation; (4) promote behaviors and cultural attributes in light of quality and safety. Accomplishment of these results requires cooperation of each care provider at all levels, from hospital to home to achieve integration of patient expectations within the scope of current transplant practice.