10 questions that set the tone for patient safety research ?
- What are the main types of error and adverse event in different healthcare settings?
- What methodologies would ensure effective patient and consumer involvement to enhance patient safety?
- What strategies would ensure early detection of new risks before they result in a rare but catastrophic event?
- How can organisational cultures be achieved that are safety conscious, “reporting-friendly” and free of blame?
- What methods can reduce error in particular specialist fields of medicine (eg, drug therapy)
- How can equipment acquisition and management policies reduce risk?
- What automated methods of data capture could be developed to reduce reliance on human reporting?
- How can data collation, classification and analysis be enhanced to allow patterns of causation, presentation, detection, and amelioration to be elucidated?
- What are the characteristics of good leadership of clinical teams that have a good approach to performance in patient safety?
- Why does change to improve patient safety so often fail to be implemented despite widespread dissemination of strategies which have been shown to work?