Patient Safety Awareness Week 2017

“A closeup…” by Penn State is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week hosted by the National Patient Safety Foundation! And while this week awareness is particularly high, the National Patient Safety Foundation encourages all healthcare professionals to treat every day like Patient Safety Day. Patient safety is a public health issue according to the National Patient Safety Foundation’s United for Patient Safety campaign–1 in 10 patients will develop a health care acquired condition during hospitalization, and 44,000 to 98,000 patients per year will die due to a medical error. National Patient Safety Week is the start of a yearlong effort highlighting important patient safety issues through information dissemination, discussions and events. One initiative during this week is for healthcare professionals to wear a patient gown in order to step into the role of a patient. You can also tune in tomorrow at 2 p.m. PST for a complimentary webcast of “The Voice of the Patient and the Public.” SCR’s Brian Leaf wrote a post on the importance of patient safety and questions to ask a doctor; read it here. To find out more about Patient Safety Awareness Week, please visit United for Patient Safety’s website. Like NNLM SCR on Facebook and like us on Twitter.
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