Changing the narratives for patient safety

Patient safety is recognized as a global public health issue, causing death and suffering in all types of patients and incurring costs in all countries. The global health community has made significant and sustained efforts to improve safety and quality of health services. However, progress in reducing preventable harm has been too limited, little and local. This article proposes that narratives or mental models are reasons for the limited progress. Narratives inform how you interpret reality and how to act in the world and those told about patient safety and poor quality care often inhibit rather than facilitate momentum to make changes. This paper discusses how changing these narratives may accelerate the efforts to improve safety and quality of care..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:95

Enthalten in:

Bulletin of the World Health Organization - 95(2017), 6, Seite 478

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peter J Pronovost [VerfasserIn]
Kathleen M Sutcliffe [Sonstige Person]
Lopa Basu [Sonstige Person]
Mary Dixon-Woods [Sonstige Person]

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BKL:

44.10

Themen:

Communities
Death
Global health
Health
Health care
Health care costs
Health services
Infections
Mental health services
Models
Mortality
Narratives
Patient safety
Patients
Problems
Public health
Quality
Quality of health care
Research
Researchers
Safety
Safety management

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RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.2471/BLT.16.178392

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1994501154