Practice Environments and Patient Safety

CIHR Café Scientifique - Patient Safety: What Can I Do?

Patient Safety: What Can I Do?

Canada’s health-care system is thought to be amongst the safest in the world.
Patient safety is one of the nation’s most pressing health-care challenges. What factors are influencing patient safety in Canada? What’s really behind the issue? What can you do?

Health research is playing a key role in improving patient safety.

In April 2009, the Canadian Nurses Association hosted its first CIHR Café Scientifique on Patient Safety: What Can I Do? The event, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and brought together members of the public and experts in an informal setting to talk about patient safety and how it can be improved.

Listen to guest speakers:

Alan Forster MD, FRCPC, MSc Scientific Director, Clinical Quality and Performance Management, The Ottawa Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa Scientist, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program

Linda McGillis Hall PhD, FAAN Associate Professor Associate Dean, Research & External Relations Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing University of Toronto

Katarina Busija RN, BN Patient Safety Officer, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Board Co-Chair, Patients for Patient Safety Canada Patients for Patient Safety Champion, Patients for Patient Safety Programme, World Alliance for Patient Safety

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