Awareness and practice of nine life-saving patient safety solutions among healthcare workers

Abstract

Millions of people die or are injured each year due to unsafe patient care at a huge human cost. Healthcare workers play a pivotal role in reducing errors, enhancing safety, and ensuring high-quality patient care. There are a number of ways in which patient safety can deteriorate in healthcare. Some important factors include a lack of patient safety research, inadequate training of healthcare professionals, and lack of patient safety guidelines in hospitals. There are nine life-saving patient safety solutions that, combined, can have an immediate, significant, and measurable impact. It is critical that healthcare workers are aware of the nine life-saving patient safety solutions and adopt them into their daily practice. Patient safety is one of the most important characteristics of good care, measured by clinically effective care. It is primarily the safety of patients in hospitals but also covers the continuum of care. Can it be implemented in non-institutional care? Adopting each of these solutions will not only reduce many common medical errors such as medication and medication errors, surgical site infections, bed sores, and hospital-acquired delirium, but will also significantly meet most international quality standards.