The sharing of best practices is a key component of enabling successful strategy implementation in support of patient safety plans and goals. This website will capture, organize, and share experiences worldwide to support knowledge sharing and community building to reduce World Patient Safety Day targeted challenges.

Nurses have a fundamental role in safe care delivery by fostering a healthy work environment. This award recognizes nurses that exhibit compassion, patient and family centeredness, and a commitment to workplace safety. The award will be presented at annual IHI Patient Safety Congress. The award nomination process for 2023 closes on December 3.

Patient safety progress is dynamic, consistently producing evidence for application to generate improvements. This report is the fourth in a series funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to track a prioritized set of emerging and existing safety approaches to confirm their value and effectiveness. This report will be compiled as new conclusions are formulated. Each review will be posted to the collection as they are completed. The first three Making Healthcare Safer reports, published in 2001, 2013, and 2020, have each served as a consolidated evidence source for clinicians, health system leadership, researchers, and government agencies. Chapter protocols and the results of an examination of harms associated with video-based telehealth are now available. 

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology brings together topic experts to summarize important issues for the consideration of the President of the United States. This report introduces the persistent problem of unsafe care and recommends a federal leadership entity, application of evidence-based solutions, true patient partnership and research funding as avenues to achieve stable improvement.

Nursing is foundational to safe patient care. This statement outlines recommendations for the nursing community to support the World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030. Tactics described target, governmental, organizational, and individual actions for improvement.

The articulation of diagnostic error in the ambulatory setting is emerging. These newly released funding announcements seek proposals that focus on understanding the factors contributing to diagnostic error and strategies to improve diagnostic safety in the ambulatory care environment. The application deadline for both opportunities has passed.