National Patient Safety Foundation: Safety is personal: Partnering with patients and families for the safest care (executive summary, 2014)

Summary

A report of the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute's roundtable on consumer engagement in patient safety. 

This US based report looks at how increasing engagement between those who provide care and those who receive it at every level can result in improved health care outcomes for individuals and safer and more productive work environments for healthcare professionals. 

Content

This report is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers to take the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement is a core value at all levels of healthcare. 

It includes recommended actions for:

• leaders of healthcare systems
• healthcare clinicians and staff
• healthcare policy makers
• patients, families and the public.