Patient safety
The WHO Patient Safety flagship initiative cuts across different areas of work within the Organization, focusing on linkages between patient safety and health care safety components across the different health systems elements, and linkages with disease-specific and clinical programmes which have a direct impact on patient safety and health outcomes at the point of care.
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As use of the Checklist has become more widespread, specific implementation factors have become more apparent. Factors for successful implementation include:Early...
The document set out to define, harmonize and group patient safety concepts into an internationally agreed classification in a way that is conducive to...
This guideline is primarily developed for engineers and architects who design or operate health-care facilities. The guideline is also useful for health-care...
22 September 2008
Summary of the evidence on patient safety: implications for research
In order to understand the scope of the issues facing policy-makers and researchers involved in improving the safety of health care, existing research...
Final version; not amended after the meeting in June 2008
WHO_IER_PSP_2008.07_chi.pdf (1.120Mb)
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