Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice
Despite 340 000 000 primary care consultations annually in the UK, most of the literature on patient safety has focused on hospital-based services. To improve safety in primary care settings, we must know what methods, tools and indicators are available to measure and monitor patient safety. In coll...
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| author | Bell, Brian Spencer, Rachel Marsden, Kate Perryman, K Cambeth, Stephen Avery, Anthony |
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| description | Despite 340 000 000 primary care consultations annually in the UK, most of the literature on patient safety has focused on hospital-based services. To improve safety in primary care settings, we must know what methods, tools and indicators are available to measure and monitor patient safety. In collaboration with patient safety experts at the University of Dundee, we were able to identify a number of existing tools, and many of these were adopted for use in the Patient Safety Toolkit. |
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| spelling | nottingham-346242020-05-04T17:56:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34624/ Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice Bell, Brian Spencer, Rachel Marsden, Kate Perryman, K Cambeth, Stephen Avery, Anthony Despite 340 000 000 primary care consultations annually in the UK, most of the literature on patient safety has focused on hospital-based services. To improve safety in primary care settings, we must know what methods, tools and indicators are available to measure and monitor patient safety. In collaboration with patient safety experts at the University of Dundee, we were able to identify a number of existing tools, and many of these were adopted for use in the Patient Safety Toolkit. SAGE 2016-06-14 Article PeerReviewed Bell, Brian, Spencer, Rachel, Marsden, Kate, Perryman, K, Cambeth, Stephen and Avery, Anthony (2016) Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice. InnovAiT . ISSN 1755-7399 Patient Safety; General Practice; Primary Care http://ino.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/10/1755738016650468.abstract doi:10.1177/1755738016650468 doi:10.1177/1755738016650468 |
| spellingShingle | Patient Safety; General Practice; Primary Care Bell, Brian Spencer, Rachel Marsden, Kate Perryman, K Cambeth, Stephen Avery, Anthony Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title | Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title_full | Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title_fullStr | Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title_short | Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| title_sort | building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice |
| topic | Patient Safety; General Practice; Primary Care |
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