Patients For Patient Safety US
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Find out how Project PIVOT is driving safety, diagnostic quality and equity through patient-reported measures.
PFPS US Priorities
Our Goals
- Establish policies, structures, funding criteria, strategies, and budgets that require and support diverse PFE
- Redesign mechanisms that effectively engage and learn from patients/families
- Require co-development (design, measurement, and oversight) of safety of clinical practices and prevention of diagnostic errors
- Engage, orient, and train diverse patients and family members to form a skilled community of diverse patient and family member partners
- Require and enforce transparency in reporting harm
- Improve the quality and integration of data to understand harm better
- Establish Communication and Resolution Programs (CRPs) as the standard of care
- Ensure patient access to medical records
- Expand the spectrum of patient safety events that must be collected and publicly reported
- Reassert patient safety and equity as a strategic priority
- Create and coordinate legislative and executive oversight and commitment to advance safety priorities
- Build awareness of safety through the annual World Patient Safety Day march and social media
- Coordinate proposed rules and guidance in the federal register to advance safety oversight
"Patient Engagement and empowerment is perhaps the most powerful tool to improve patient safety"
(WHO Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030)
Patients For Patient Safety US is committed to implementing the World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Action Plan in the USA.
The Global Patient Safety Action Plan Framework
Unsafe care results in over 2.6 million deaths per year and is considered one of the world’s leading causes of death. In 2019 the 72nd World Health Assembly issued a call to action, The “Global Action on Patient Safety”, that called for Member States to “work in collaboration with other Member States, civil society organizations, patients’ organizations, professional bodies, academic and research institutions, industry and other relevant stakeholders to promote, prioritize and embed patient safety in all health policies and strategies.”
The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with Member States and key international stakeholders, developed the “Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030” that provides a strategic direction for concrete actions to be taken by countries, stakeholders (including patients, family members, patient organizations and civil society), health care facilities and WHO to co-produce safer care around the world.
About Patient Safety
Patient Safety is a health care discipline that emerged with the evolving complexity in health care systems and the resulting rise of patient harm in health care facilities. It aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patients during provision of health care. A cornerstone of the discipline is continuous improvement based on learning from errors and adverse events.
Patient safety is fundamental to delivering quality essential health services. Indeed, there is a clear consensus that quality health services across the world should be effective, safe and people-centred. In addition, to realize the benefits of quality health care, health services must be timely, equitable, integrated and efficient.
To ensure successful implementation of patient safety strategies; clear policies, leadership capacity, data to drive safety improvements, skilled health care professionals and effective involvement of patients in their care, are all needed.
