Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care
This report identifies specific recommended actions for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of health care.
Highlights
- Current landscape and barriers to engaging patients and families in improving health care safety
- Specific recommendations for health care leaders, clinicians and staff, policy makers, and patients and families
National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute. Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care. Boston: National Patient Safety Foundation; 2014.
Significant evidence is mounting in support of patient engagement as a vital contributing component of safe care. This report, produced by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute Roundtable on Consumer Engagement in Patient Safety, is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of health care.
The report identifies specific recommended action items for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to pursue in making patient and family engagement a core value in the provision of health care.
Download Safety Is Personal
* Required fields