Kick-off SAFEST

Improving Patient Quality and Safety in Surgical Care through Standardization and Harmonization of Perioperative Care in Europe (SAFEST)

This week in Barcelona, ​​we celebrated the kick-off of our SAFEST project, which aims to improve adherence to standardized, evidence-based patient safety practices in perioperative care by 15% and reduce the incidence of surgical complications by 8% 18 months after surgery.

This project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe program (GA 101057825) and will be developed over the next four years with prestigious organizations with experience in the sector, such as:

Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research – Nivel, The Netherlands
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – UNL, Portugal
IQ Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare) – RADBOUDUMC, The Netherlands
Spanish Safety Notification System in Anesthesia and Resuscitation – SENSAR, Spain
University of Tartu – UTARTU, Estonia
OptiMedis AG – OM, Germany
European Hospital and Healthcare Federation – HOPE, Belgium
European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care – ESAIC, Belgium
Spojená akreditační komise – SAK, Czech Republic
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