title: Integration of patient safety systems in a suburban hospital.
abstract: Public awareness of hospital misadventure is now common. In response, we describe our integrated hospital safety system, which is dependent on the linkage of multiple individual safety committees, and the presence on each committee of senior and junior multidisciplinary healthcare professionals to provide feedback to their peer groups on required improvements.
authors.affiliation: Northside Clinical School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Redcliffe Hospital, Redcliffe, QLD 4020, Australia. peter_stride@health.qld.gov.au
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stride
authors.forename: Mostafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Seleem
authors.forename: Noleen
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nath
authors.forename: Ami
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Horne
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kapitsalas
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D011793:Queensland; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*