Safety culture
- Assessing safety culture
- Engaging patients (patients for patient safety)
- Communication and teamwork
Reporting and disclosure of medical errors
- Error reporting systems
- Taxonomy for reporting errors/adverse events
- Barriers to reporting
- Disclosure and legal issues
Patient safety goals and solutions
Medication safety
- Types of medication errors
- Trigger tool for identification of medication errors
- Medication reconciliation
- Look alike-sound alike drugs
- Prohibited abbreviations
Safe surgery
- Surgical errors and adverse events
- Anesthesia errors and adverse events
- WHO Surgical checklist
Safety in healthcare units/systems
- Emergency department
- Critical care units
- Laboratory
- Dialysis
- Blood safety
- Injection safety
Information technology and patient safety
Environmental safety in health care facilities
Infection Control