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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Using research to make health care safer

Christine M Jorm and Sarah J White

Australian Health Review 33(3) 400 - 407
Published: 2009

Abstract

There is a fine balance that needs to be maintained between research and improvement in safety and quality in health care ? when do we need more research and when can we just get on with it? The moral imperative to improve care may have been a distractor, preventing adequate attention to research. Three research areas are proposed as current priorities for patient safety: getting evidence into practice, measurement of safety, and the evaluation of complex interventions. A focus on these areas should ensure that research becomes more central to the process of making health care safer.

https://doi.org/10.1071/AH090400

© AHHA 2009

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