Clarifying misconception of quality and safety in healthcare

What is it about?

Healthcare has undergone multiple phases on gaining understanding, accepting and implementing quality and safety, with the last three decades being crucial and decisive in making progress. in the meantime, the cost of error in healthcare (both in human lives and monetary cost) has been continuing to rise. Healthcare has not given definitions yet on quality and safety. This is allowing the misconception, that already established quality systems are fit for safety purposes as well. In this paper the distinct nature of safety and its detachment of quality is being discussed, along with the need for clear and safety specific processes. Setting common language is the first step in establishing appropriate safety processes and quality systems, to promote patient safety successfully.

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