This innovative academic-practice partnership applied user-centered design, resulting in a
new clinical model, the “Harm Prevention Partners Program.” The model engaged students …

Patient safety efforts advocate for transforming healthcare from a culture of blame to a non-
punitive “culture of safety.” One of the most challenging hurdles is to encourage healthcare …

Background The number of medical errors in the United States is estimated to be up to
250,000 per year. Nurses are critical to patient safety; however, few nursing programs …

As part of a patient safety curriculum, we developed a Web-based hazard and near-miss
reporting system for postbaccalaureate nursing students to use during their clinical …

Nurses aim to protect patients from harm via constant surveillance and risk management
strategies that include risk assessment, threat recognition, response prioritization, and …

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Background: Patient safety–focused research may be strengthened by the inclusion of
patients and family members in research design; yet, published methodologies for doing so …

Preventable harm events in health care delivery have been problematic for decades and are
currently impacting 1 in 10 patients in the United States (World Health Organization [WHO] …

Objective: Patient Safety has attained international status, evidenced by major research and
health policy initiatives in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Scandanavia and Japan …

Assuring safety in the delivery of health care in the hospital setting has gained increased
attention following the Institute of Medicine's report ''To Err Is Human''published in 1999 …