ABSTRACT
Issues surrounding quality, risk, and safety in healthcare are not localized issues and are of global concern. Based on this premise, we felt it was important to revisit the state of quality through the lens of international leaders and their perspectives on these issues in order to better understand how the field has evolved and future directions for quality advancement. Quality, risk, and safety are becoming more integrated across healthcare. It is the vision of this book that quality is the overarching concept and under this main concept, risk and safety are embedded. Some have envisioned that quality is an umbrella, which has safety and risk under it while others have conceptualized quality as the foundation upon which safety and risk are built.
