Assessment and research
Planning and prioritizing effective safety interventions and policies requires a thorough understanding of the problem. Several documents have been developed for patient safety research and assessment, which are available below.
Publications
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...
Patient safety tool kit
The Patient safety tool kit describes the practical steps and actions needed to build a comprehensive patient safety improvement programme in hospitals...
This document reflects on the specific ethical questions that can arise in the conduct of patient safety research and improvement activities, and aims...
Patient safety assessment manual 1st edition
Unsafe health care remains a problem of immense magnitude worldwide. The development of solutions and initiatives aimed at driving change towards greater...
The Eastern Mediterranean and African adverse events study was a large scale study carried out in six Eastern Mediterranean and two African countries,...
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...
Assessing and tackling patient harm: a methodological guide for data-poor hospitals
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...
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...
Other publications
Training materials for patient safety research
A series of lectures, online courses and resources for enhancing research capacity for patient safety.