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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system - is this the right model? |
Author: | Runciman, W. |
Citation: | BMJ Quality and Safety, 2002; 11(3):246-251 |
Publisher: | British Med Journal Publ Group |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 1475-3898 1475-3901 |
Statement of Responsibility: | W.B. Runciman |
Abstract: | The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an independent organisation to coordinate patient safety surveillance; agreed frameworks for patient safety and surveillance systems; common, agreed standards and terminology; a single, clinically useful classification for things that go wrong in health care; a national repository for information covering all of health care from all available sources; mechanisms for setting priorities at local, national and international levels; a just system which caters for the rights of patients, society, and healthcare practitioners and facilities; separate processes for accountability and "systems learnings"; the right to anonymity and legal privilege for reporters; systems for rapid feedback and evidence of action; mechanisms for involving and informing all stakeholders. There are powerful reasons for establishing national systems, for aligning terminology, tools and classification systems internationally, and for rapid dissemination of successful strategies. |
Keywords: | Humans Sentinel Surveillance Safety Management Models, Organizational International Cooperation Social Responsibility Medical Errors Risk Management Foundations Health Priorities Delivery of Health Care Medical Audit Australia |
Description: | COPYRIGHT 2002 British Medical Association |
DOI: | 10.1136/qhc.11.3.246 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/qhc.11.3.246 |
Appears in Collections: | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care publications Aurora harvest |
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