title: African partnerships for patient safety: a vehicle for enhancing patient safety across two continents. [corrected].
abstract: African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS) aims to develop sustainable partnerships between hospitals in Africa and Europe to create a network of beacon hospitals for patient safety. The three core APPS objectives are focused on building strong patient safety partnerships between hospitals in Africa and Europe, implementing patient safety improvements in each partnership hospital on 12 patient safety action areas, and facilitating spread of patient safety improvements. APPS is working with six first wave hospital partnerships and will capture and report learning from implementation. A range of APPS resources will shortly be available to hospitals working on patient safety systems.
authors.affiliation: African Partnerships for Patient Safety, WHO Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland. syeds@who.int [corrected]
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Syed
authors.forename: Shamsuzzoha B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Syed
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gooden
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Storr
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Hightower
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rutter
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bagheri Nejad
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lardner
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pittet
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*