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Minimal Information Model User Guide
One of the major challenges of patient safety incident reporting and learning systems lies in the difficulties of extracting practical information from...
Medication Without Harm
The WHO's Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm brochure outlines the vision and strategic direction of this global initiative...
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Transitions of care
World Health Organization. (2016). Transitions of care. World Health Organization. https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/252272....
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Patient engagement
Health care systems are complex and include multiple stakeholders and providers. People using health care services have an essential role as co-producers...
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Electronic tools
This monograph aims to raise awareness among World Health Organization (WHO) Member States about the role of electronic tools and eHealth in safer primary care....
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Education and training
The aim of this technical series is to provide a compendium of information on key issues that can impact safety in the provision of primary health care....
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Multimorbidity
People often live with many health conditions. Ageing populations and the increase in long-term conditions mean that the number of people with multiple health...
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Administrative errors
This monograph describes different types of administrative errors in primary care. It aims to raise awareness about issues that would need to be addressed...
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Medication errors
Medications are offered by health services throughout the world. However, with substantial and increasing medication use comes a growing risk of harm....
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Human factors
This monograph describes what “human factors” are and what relevance this approach has for improving safety in primary care. This section defines...
Technical Series on Safer Primary Care: Diagnostic errors
Diagnosis is one of the most important tasks performed by primary care providers. Diagnostic errors can lead to patient harm from wrong or delayed testing...
Patient safety assessment manual 2nd edition
safety is a global health concern, affecting patients in all health care settings, whether in developed or developing countries. Research studies have...
This tool gives patients and families a list of essential information that they need to know and discuss with their health-care providers to ensure safer...
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