Search Tag: zero preventable deaths
2023 30 Aug
Instituting patient safety practices will save lives and healthcare dollars. We are proud of our healthcare experts; it is the system that needs to be fixed, and we can do that! We can create a system where safe, high-quality healthcare is delivered to every patient every time. Healthcare must become a high-reliability organisation, and this starts...Read more
2022 29 Apr
Find the Patient Safety Movement on Social Medi a Save the date for the 2022 World Patient Safe ty, Science & Technology Summit! Stay tuned for more information! Read more
2020 29 Jan
Summary: Preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., and it’s time to take action and change from a culture of deny and defend to a just culture of safety. It’s the only way we can begin to save lives. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine released its groundbreaking report, ‘To Err is Human,’ which shook the healthcare...Read more
2020 01 Jul
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO COVID- 19 HEALTH CONCERNS. Find the Patient Safety Movement on Social Media Read more
2019 22 Feb
The Patient Safety Foundation rounds up best practices at its annual congress The 2019 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit held in January presented best practices for preventing avoidable patient deaths and a guide to how hospitals can achieve this by 2020. I have just returned from the 7th Annual World Patient Safety,...Read more