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A framework for classifying patient safety practices: results from an expert consensus process.

Sydney M Dy¹, Stephanie L Taylor, Lauren H Carr

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21090, USA. sdy@jhsph.edu

BMJ Quality & Safety

|May 26, 2011

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

A new framework classifies patient safety practices (PSPs) to improve research interpretation. It addresses 11 dimensions, aiding in comparing and understanding diverse PSPs for better patient safety outcomes.

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Management
Patient Safety Research
Health Services Research

Background:

Evaluating patient safety practices (PSPs) lacks a unified approach due to the absence of a conceptual framework.
This hinders the coherent development and interpretation of existing literature on patient safety.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and present a conceptual framework for classifying diverse patient safety practices (PSPs).
To address the need for a structured method to describe and categorize PSPs.

Main Methods:

Synthesized existing conceptual frameworks related to PSPs.
Developed a draft classification framework and evaluated it with expert panels.
Revised the framework through an expert-panel consensus process.

Main Results:

A framework with 11 classification dimensions was developed.
Dimensions include regulatory vs. voluntary, setting, feasibility, individual vs. organizational change, temporal aspects, scope, event frequency, PSP maturity, evidence level, behavioral change, and context sensitivity.

Conclusions:

The proposed framework enables classification and comparison of PSPs, facilitating interpretation of patient safety literature.
Further research is required to understand these dimensions, their evolution, and their utility in practice.