1. Patient safety
Overview of patient safety, quality
issues & primary areas of concern

2. Patient safety
Infection Medication Documentation
control errors > surgical error

3. Patient safety?
“Patient safety is the absence of preventable
harm to a patient during the process of health
care.”
WHO 2012
Health Prevent
Patients
care harm

4. Why?
Evidence of unsafe care!
WHO summarized the current research into patient
safety and published the findings in a report
which identified some key findings.
Developed
Harm Gaps
Countries
Patient safety research: an overview of the global evidence
Jha A K, Prasopa-Plaizier N, Larizgoitia I, Bates D W

5. Primary areas of focus;
patient safety
After orientating
ourselves to the
literature, we started to
note and identify
relevant topics that
recurred in our
searches...

9. The National Quality Forum in 2006 published a list
of ‘errors’ pertaining to patient safety and called
them "never events”.
Among the errors cited, were;
Hospital &
community Drug errors Surgical errors
acquired infections
Other sources of patient safety problems resulted in
compromised patient protection, adverse events
involving devices/equipment and criminal events.

10. “The Mission of the High 5s Project is to
facilitate implementation and
evaluation of standardised patient
safety solutions within a global
learning community to achieve
measurable, significant, and sustained
reductions in highly important patient
safety problems.”
-WHO (2012)
WHO (2012) is implementing the high 5’s
project multi-nationally, focusing on
similar areas to those we found to be
of most importance through their
predominance in the literature
surrounding Patient Safety..