title: High 5s: addressing excellence in patient safety.
abstract: The High 5s project is a multi-country, multi-agency collaborative initiative to improve patient safety around the world. Launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006, the mission of the Project is to facilitate implementation and evaluation of standardized patient safety solutions within a global learning community to achieve measurable, significant, and sustainable reductions in challenging patient safety problems in hospitals from several countries over five years. The High 5s project is best characterized as supporting the development and application of innovative, specific standard operating protocols (SOPs) through the collection, reporting and analysis of data, and establishing an electronic collaborative learning community.
authors.affiliation: Patient Safety Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Agnès
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leotsakos
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Caisley
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karga
authors.forename: Ed
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Leary
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Timmons
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*