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Patient safety: the search for global solutions.

Dennis S O'Leary¹

¹The Joint Commission, USA.

World Hospitals and Health Services : the Official Journal of the International Hospital Federation

|June 14, 2008

Summary

The World Health Organization established a global patient safety initiative, creating an international infrastructure to prioritize and develop solutions for improving patient safety worldwide.

Area of Science:

Healthcare Management
Patient Safety Research
Global Health Policy

Background:

Growing concerns regarding patient safety led to the World Health Assembly's Resolution 55.18 in 2002.
This resolution initiated the World Alliance for Patient Safety.
The World Health Organization designated The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International as its Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Solutions.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the experience of the Collaborating Centre in establishing an international infrastructure.
To outline the process for collaboratively setting patient safety solution priorities.
To detail the development of specific patient safety solutions.

Main Methods:

Establishing an international infrastructure for collaboration.

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Collaborative prioritization of patient safety solution needs.

Elaboration and summarization of initial patient safety solutions.

Main Results:

An international infrastructure was successfully created to support patient safety efforts.
Priorities for patient safety solutions were collaboratively set.
Nine initial patient safety solutions addressing key problems were developed and summarized.

Conclusions:

The Collaborating Centre effectively developed an international framework for advancing patient safety.
The established infrastructure facilitates global cooperation in identifying and implementing patient safety solutions.
The initial nine solutions represent a foundational step in addressing critical patient safety challenges.