The quality and safety aspect of health care is of utmost importance in health service delivery. Health services that are provided should be of very high...

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This document is available in Portuguese and Brazilian PortugueseThe Brazilian Portuguese version published by the Área Técnica da Saúde...

The Patient safety tool kit describes the practical steps and actions needed to build a comprehensive patient safety improvement programme in hospitals...

This document outlines a four-step approach for developing a patient safety policy and a strategic plan: • situation analysis • national patient...

This document reflects on the specific ethical questions that can arise in the conduct of patient safety research and improvement activities, and aims...

This document brings together current concepts on curriculum building, training and education in the field of patient safety research. This guide is...

Unsafe health care remains a problem of immense magnitude worldwide. The development of solutions and initiatives aimed at driving change towards greater...

The Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide (2011) was developed to assist in the teaching of patient safety in universities and schools in...

This study of adverse events (IBEAS) aimed to assess the extent of unsafe care in selected hospitals in Latin America. The objectives of the study were...

The Eastern Mediterranean and African adverse events study was a large scale study carried out in six Eastern Mediterranean and two African countries,...

Farsi, Persian 2008 version published by: Urmia : Urmia University of Medical SciencesPortuguese 2008 version published by the Instituto de Comunicação...

This guide describes a set of methodologies that can be used either to estimate the extent of harm caused by the delivery of health care in a particular...

Confronted with worldwide evidence of substantial public health harm due to inadequate patient safety, the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2002 adopted...