A3: Basic Principles of Patient Safety
- Dates
- from 11/01/2027 to 28/03/2027
- Credits
- Credits
- More information
- Neus Gabà
ngaba@fadq.org
+34 93 207 66 08
Objectives
- Understand the relationship between healthcare quality and patient safety.
- Identify the main background of the safety movement: in the health sector and other areas.
- Discuss the epidemiology of clinical safety and the results of major studies.
- Review key reports on patient safety and their main contributions.
- Define the terminology used by WHO.
- Identify clinical safety culture as a basis for quality improvement and explore tools for its assessment and enhancement.
- Understand the importance of the human factor and patient safety and the application of tools for its improvement.
Didactic Units:
- Quality and Patient Safety
- Inherent Risk in Healthcare and Scope of the Problem
- Brief History of Safety 1 and 2
- Advances in Safety
- Research Progress in the Field of Safety
- Strategies and Main Patient Safety Organizations
- Case Studies
- Main Findings of Epidemiological Studies
- Methodological Aspects of Studies 1 and 2
- Nature of Adverse Events
- Safety Terminology: Basic Concepts
- Latent Conditions
- How Do Errors Occur?
- Error Approach Models
- Organizational Culture: Basic Concepts
- Patient Safety Culture
- Measuring Safety Culture
- Introduction to the Human Factor and Patient Safety
- Communication and Patient Safety
- Teamwork and Patient Safety
- Situation Awareness
- Decision Making and Patient Safety
- Stress, Fatigue, and Work Environment