Question

What does Patient Safety in Healthcare mean to you as a leader or potential leader in healthcare, and now, to you as a beneficiary of care?

Answer 1

Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum.It aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patienta during provision of health care. A cornerstone of the discipline is continuous improvement based on learning from errors and adverse events. ppatient safety is fundamental to delivering quality essential health services.