Title: Patient Safety Systems chapter: A must-read
Abstract: Overview: The purpose of the Patient Safety Systems (PS) chapter is to inform and educate leaders about the importance and structure of an integrated patient-centered system that aims to improve quality of care and patient safety. There are no new requirements in the PS chapter; the standards are culled from existing chapters. The standards highlighted in the PS chapter are intended to assist leaders in creating a culture of safety that fosters an environment where care teams and leaders work together to eliminate complacency, promote collective mindfulness, treat one another with respect and learn from patient safety events. The chapter is oriented to leadership, because leader engagement is imperative to the trust-report-improve cycle of establishing a safety culture. 1 The PS chapter, available online for everyone, has three guiding principles: • Aligning existing Joint Commission standards with daily work in order to engage patients and care teams throughout the health care system, at all times, on reducing the risk for patient harm. • Assisting health care organizations with advancing knowledge, skills and competence of care team members and encouraging patient activation by recommending methods that will improve quality and safety processes. • Encouraging and recommending proactive methods and models of quality and patient safety that will increase accountability, trust and knowledge while reducing the impact of fear and blame. Issue: Patient safety emerges as a central aim of quality. Patient safety, as defined by the World Health Organization, is the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients that are associated with health care. High quality, safe care is what patients, families, care teams, and the public expect from Joint Commission-accredited organizations. While patient safety events may not be completely eliminated, harm to patients can be reduced, and the goal is always zero harm. Highlights of the Patient Safety Systems chapter
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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