Chủ đề: Patient safety research: introductory course (on-line)

Trên website của Tổ chức Y tế Thế giới (WHO) có giới thiệu khóa học online về An toàn người bệnh. Khóa học được hai chuyên gia hàng đầu về an toan người bệnh là Tiến sỹ David Bates, giám đốc trung tâm nghiên cứu về ATNB của WHO và Tiến sỹ Albert Wu, Giáo sư khoa Quản lý và các chính sách y tế của Đại học Johns Hopkins, USA. Các bài học được chia làm 8 phần, được tác giả trình bày bằng Power Point kèm theo bài giảng được ghi âm. Các bạn muốn tham khảo có thể download dễ dàng từ trang web của WHO: [Bạn không thể nhìn thấy link cho đến khi đăng ký, nhấn vào đây để đăng ký]

How familiar are you with the concept of patient safety? Hundreds of thousands of patients are harmed or die each year due to unsafe care, or get injured inadvertently when seeking health care. Understanding the magnitude of the problem in hospitals and primary care facilities is the first step towards improving patient safety. A series of free on-line courses were broadcast (in April and May 2010) to introduce the basic elements of patient safety research.

There were eight sessions for health-care professionals and researchers interested in learning how to identify patient safety problems. Through these sessions, participants were informed of the core principles of patient safety research.

The sessions were provided by internationally renowned specialists in patient safety, namely Dr David Bates, External Programme Lead for Research, WHO Patient Safety, and the Director of the Center of Excellence in Patient Safety and Research, USA, and Dr Albert Wu, a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Online Course Archives

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Session 1

This first session introduces the concept of "Patient Safety". Starting from the definition of patient safety, topical global issues are explained, supported by practical examples.

Session 2

In this session, we focus on "research" in patient safety. Five important aspects of the research cycle will be explained: “measuring harm”, “understanding causes”, “identifying solutions”, “evaluating impact” and “translating evidence into safer health care”.



Session 3

Measuring what goes wrong in health care includes counting how many patients are harmed or killed each year, and from what types of adverse events. This session introduces methods for measuring harm.


Session 4

Once priority areas have been identified, the next step is to understand the underlying causes of adverse events that lead to patient harm. This session explains several methods, using practical examples.


Session 5

To improve patient safety, solutions are needed that tackle the underlying causes of unsafe care. In this session we explain how we can design solutions and implement them


Session 6

It is crucial to evaluate the effectiveness of solutions in real-life settings in terms of their impact, acceptability and affordability. In this session, several methods for evaluation are introduced.


Session 7

The final step in the research cycle is to understand how research findings can be translated into practice


Session 8

In this last session, we review the previous sessions, reflecting on questions and comments from the participants. We also suggest ways to advance learning and where to find other useful resources for future study.

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