patient safety strategies - Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety

By Michael W. Wong, JD (Executive Director, Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety)

In this thoughtful and well-written editorial in the Journal of Patient Safety, Olivia Lounsbury, MS (University of Oxford) and her colleagues urge patient safety advocates and clinicians to learn from each other to further their own goals of improving patient safety:

While national contexts differ, the potential for shared learning and collaboration between countries like the United States and United Kingdom is immense.

Lounsbury et. al. invite us to look at national patient safety initiatives, such as:

Finland’s Client and Patient Safety Strategy
New Zealand’s Quality and Safety Capability Framework
UK’s National Health Service’s Patient Safety Strategy

So, this is what I did, and here’s what I found.

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