Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice

Bell, Brian; Spencer, Rachel; Marsden, Kate; Perryman, K; Cambeth, Stephen; Avery, Anthony

Abstract

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.

Citation

Bell, B., Spencer, R., Marsden, K., Perryman, K., Cambeth, S., & Avery, A. (in press). Building a patient safety toolkit for use in general practice. InnovAiT, https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738016650468

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 19, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jun 14, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 5, 2016
• Journal: InnovAiT
• Print ISSN: 1755-7380
• Electronic ISSN: 1755-7399
• Publisher: Royal College of General Practitioners
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1755738016650468
• Keywords: Patient Safety; General Practice; Primary Care
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/795256
• Publisher URL: http://ino.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/10/1755738016650468.abstract
• Additional Information: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journals-permissions
• Contract Date: Jul 5, 2016