Integration of patient safety systems in a suburban hospital
Peter Stride A , Mostafa Seleem B , Noleen Nath B , Ami Horne B and Christina Kapitsalas B CA Northside Clinical School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Redcliffe Hospital, Anzac Avenue, Redcliffe, QLD 4020, Australia.
B Redcliffe Hospital, Anzac Avenue, Redcliffe, QLD 4020, Australia. Email: peter_stride@health.qld.gov.au; mostafa_seleem@health.qld.gov.au; noleen_nath@health.qld.gov.au; ami_horne@health.qld.gov.au
Australian Health Review 36(4) 359-362 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH11099
Submitted: 17 October 2011 Accepted: 15 March 2012 Published: 10 September 2012
Abstract
Public awareness of hospital misadventure is now common. In response, we describe our integrated hospital safety system, which is dependent on the linkage of multiple individual safety committees, and the presence on each committee of senior and junior multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to provide feedback to their peer groups on required improvements.
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