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17th September is World Patient Safety Day.
It is a global initiative to promote safer safer healthcare practices and minimise patient harm. Patient safety is a growing global public health challenge. It has been found that at least 50% of all patient harm is avoidable. Every interaction in the care-giving process from patient admission to discharge and care in the community can contribute to patient harm.
See the World Health Organization's Patient Safety webpage for more information.
Core skills for communicating for safety portal (by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care)
Journals
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety
Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal exploring patient safety issues in the healthcare continuum from diagnostic and screening interventions through to treatment, drug therapy and surgery.
The ​Journal of Patient Safety is dedicated to presenting research advances and field applications in every area of patient safety. While Journal of Patient Safety has a research emphasis, it also publishes articles describing near-miss opportunities, system modifications that are barriers to error, and the impact of regulatory changes on healthcare delivery.
The journal’s mission is to provide an international forum for healthcare professionals to report, discuss, debate, and critically review all aspects of care delivery that impose a risk on patient safety, with the ultimate goal of eliminating preventable adverse events and improving patient outcomes on a larger scale.
Current literature
Alabdaly, A., Hinchcliff, R., Debono, D., & Hor, S. Y. (2024). Relationship between patient safety culture and patient experience in hospital settings: a scoping review. BMC health services research, 24(1), 906. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11329-w
Cai, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Liu, S., Zhang, M., & Jiang, Y. (2024). Patient and family engagement interventions for hospitalized patient safety: A scoping review. Journal of clinical nursing, 33(6), 2099–2111. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.17022
Sattar, R., Lawton, R., Janes, G., Elshehaly, M., Heyhoe, J., Hague, I., & Grindey, C. (2024). A systematic review of workplace triggers of emotions in the healthcare environment, the emotions experienced, and the impact on patient safety. BMC health services research, 24(1), 603. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11011-1
Shi, Y., Miao, S., Fu, Y., Sun, C., Wang, H., & Zhai, X. (2024). TeamSTEPPS improves patient safety. BMJ open quality, 13(2), e002669. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002669
