Talk:Patient safety

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This article appears to be one of the sleeper articles on Wikipedia. Ryanjo has done a really good job with this one. Since peer review is on a backlog right now, I'll post some comments here.

The article could use a more worldwide view on the subject - most of the text concerns patient safety in the U.S. and U.K. It is also quite large and some of the sections could be trimmed and new articles can be created. Some of the external links for the patient safety organizations can also be converted to wikilinks or de-linked. Some of the images could be converted to PNG and most are missing rationale or have incorrect licenses. Otherwise, I think this article is well on its way to becoming a featured article. --Jtalledo (talk) 16:15, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. I will try to move forward with these. Ryanjo 04:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] another Patient Safety resource to consider

Great article--am wondering whether you'd like to add another resource to your listing at the end, namely the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (prhi.org). Founded in 1998, it's adapted Toyota Production System principles to healthcare settings in order to improve safety and quality and reduce the costs of care. It was cofounded by Paul O'Neill (please see his Wikipedia article) and Karen Wolk Feinstein, president of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. It's a regional effort but has received national recognition from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research... as well as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and other large health systems in the United States. Hope this is helpful. Renuzaretsky 18:46, 8 March 2007 (UTC)RenuZaretsky in Pittsburgh

There is a companion article, Patient safety organization, which could have a link to PRHI. Ryanjo 04:11, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Toerrishuman.gif

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:02, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Done Ryanjo (talk) 21:50, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Medical ethics

The recent addition of medical ethics in the "initiatives in patient safety" section is neither detailed enough to explain how medical ethics is being applied to solve patient safety issues, nor is it referenced. I have removed this edit until some more information & references are added. The article needs to provide specific information about applying medical ethics to patient safety, rather than general or self-evident statements. Ryanjo (talk) 19:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I did find an journal article pertinent to application of medical ethics to patient safety, and added it to the P4P section of the article.Ryanjo (talk) 16:25, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hospital accreditation

I have also removed the recently added section "Hospital Accreditation". It provides no references supporting the place of accrediting agencies as a patient safety initiative. In fact, there is evidence to the contrary [1]. Essentially, since Wikipedia is a reference work, statements in this Patient safety article should be supported by references specific to patient safety. Also, the sentence "Such accreditation can be sourced from the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada." is unclear. Ryanjo (talk) 21:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)