title: Patient safety: the what, how, and when.
abstract: Patient safety is a construct that implies behavior intended to minimize the risk of harm to patients through effectiveness and individual performance designed to avoid injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has made patient safety a focused area in the new Clinical Learning Environment Review process. This lecture will focus on definitions of patient safety terminology; describe the culture of patient safety and a just culture; discuss what to report, who to report it too, and methods of conducting patient safety investigations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 920 Stanton L. Young Blvd., WP2140, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA. Electronic address: roxie-albrecht@ouhsc.edu.
authors.forename: Roxie M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Albrecht
mesh_terms: D003226:Congresses as Topic; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D061214:Patient Safety; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: CLER review process; Patient safety; Safety culture