Making healthcare safer IV: A continuous updating of patient safety harms and practices

Summary

Since To Err is Human was published in 1999, the patient safety evidence-base has expanded exponentially in alignment with continued maturity of the field. This publication is the 4th in a series of reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US-based), that reviews research supporting established patient safety practices to reduce patient harms. The current report is being published as updates are finalised to provide recommendation and share strategies highlighted in the literature to drive implementation of the practices discussed in areas such as: 

• opioid stewardship
• patient and family engagement
• telehealth
• implicit bias
• failure to rescue
• computerised decision support
• deprescribing.