ABSTRACT

This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries. A foundation premise is the concept of ‘reverse innovation’ as mutual learning from the chapters challenges traditional assumptions about the construction and location of knowledge. This edited collection can be seen to facilitate global learning. This book will, hopefully, form a bridge for those countries seeking to enhance their patient safety policies. Contributors to this book challenge many supposed generalisations about human societies, including consideration of how medical care is mediated within those societies and how patient safety is assured or compromised. By introducing major theories from the developing world in the book, readers are encouraged to reflect on their impact on the patient safety and the health quality debate. The development of practical patient safety policies for wider use is also encouraged. The volume presents a ground-breaking perspective by exploring fundamental issues relating to patient safety through different academic disciplines. It develops the possibility of a new patient safety and health quality synthesis and discourse relevant to all concerned with patient safety and health quality in a global context.

chapter 6|22 pages

Patient safety, the ‘safe space’ and the duty of candour

Reconciling the irreconcilable?

chapter 7|16 pages

Religious and cultural beliefs

The potential for patient safety to be compromised

chapter 9|15 pages

State adverse health incident reporting systems in the United States

An introduction and contextual discussion

chapter 10|20 pages

Adverse health events in Minnesota

chapter 12|15 pages

Patient safety in Thailand

chapter 13|15 pages

Patient safety in Uganda

chapter 14|18 pages

Patient safety in Nigeria

An emergent concept

chapter 16|16 pages

Patient safety and the health transition

Understanding and addressing the high level of lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases in the Pacific region

chapter 18|12 pages

Conclusion

Global patient safety – power of the dream