Sixteen international health systems have begun a year-long project called the Safer Care Accelerator. The project will gather and share data with the goal to design systems to improve patient safety, according to a report from CMAJ.
According to the report, Leading Health Systems Network, which is a partnership between Qatar's World Innovation Summit for Health and Imperial College London launched the program, and the first step will be the development of a Patient Safety Scorecard to first identify gaps in the information health systems collect on "adverse events and what they do with the data."
"Most health systems can't tell you what their top problem is — there's a real lack of ability to quantify problems with safety," Deidre Thompson, a policy fellow at Imperial who works on the LHSN, told CMAJ.
The second part of the project will focus on the development and comparing of solutions for a specific issue, for example pressure ulcers or hospital-acquired infections.
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