Every September 17th, World Patient Safety Day is commemorated, and this year's theme is "Improving Diagnosis for Patient Safety." In line with the WHO’s Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030 and PAHO’s Strategy and Action Plan to Improve the Quality of Care in Health Services Delivery 2020-2025 for the Region of the Americas, the focus is on highlighting the importance of accurate and timely diagnosis to ensure patient safety and improve health outcomes.
With the slogan "Get it right, make it safe!", the WHO calls on all stakeholders to take necessary measures to prioritize diagnostic safety and adopt a multidimensional approach that strengthens systems, ensures safe diagnostic pathways, supports healthcare workers in making correct decisions, and engages patients throughout the diagnostic process. This approach aims to reduce diagnostic errors, which often arise from a combination of cognitive and system factors affecting the recognition of key patient signs and symptoms, as well as the interpretation and communication of test and study results.
This year, we will host a virtual seminar on September 25 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., providing patients, decision-makers, healthcare teams, and academics the opportunity to discuss and share their insights on enhancing patient safety through more timely and accurate diagnoses.
Event objectives:
Promote the importance of diagnostic safety at all levels of healthcare.
Foster collaboration among policymakers, healthcare leaders, healthcare workers, patient organizations, and other stakeholders to advance accurate, timely, and safe diagnosis.
Engage patients and families to actively collaborate with healthcare workers and leaders to improve diagnostic processes.
Audience:
Policymakers from Ministries of Health and other ministries, academics, healthcare leaders, healthcare professionals and workers, patient organizations, families, and communities.
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