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.

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. 

Unique challenges accompany efforts to study and reduce diagnostic error in children. This issue brief discusses addressing obstacles associated with testing and care access limitations that affect diagnosis across a variety of pediatric care environments. It also provides recommendations for building capacity to advance pediatric diagnostic safety. This issue brief is part of a series on diagnostic safety.

Advanced computer technologies and data analysis are an increasing focus in diagnostic safety efforts. The theme of this annual event is “Diagnostic Digital Health Research”. Ethical use of artificial intelligence, consumer diagnostic technology and digital diagnostics and amongst the topics to be covered.

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.

Diagnostic errors occur in all settings of care and are a primary challenge to safe health care. This announcement raises awareness of two upcoming funding opportunities for understanding and improving diagnostic safety in diverse ambulatory care environments. The funding will target the incidence and contributory factors of diagnostic error within the array of ambulatory care services and the development of strategies and interventions to improve diagnostic safety in ambulatory care.

Reducing preventable harm in healthcare settings remains a national priority. This report summarizes the results of the prioritization process used to identify patient safety practices meriting inclusion in the fourth installment of the Making Healthcare Safer (MHS) series (previous installments were published in 2001, 2013, and 2020). The fifteen-member Technical Expert Panel identified 27 priority patient safety practices for examination in the forthcoming report, including several practices that have not been covered in previous MHS reports (e.g., family/caregiver engagement, preventing non-ventilator associated pneumonia, supply chain disruption, high reliability, post-event communication programs).

Engaging patients to capture their insights after diagnostic error is one of the top patient safety strategies. This pair of issue briefs describes how organizations can use patient experience to inform improvements in diagnosis. Volume 1: Why Patient Narratives Matter highlights how patient perspectives offer unique information about the impacts of diagnosis-related events on patient care trajectories through the healthcare system. Volume 2: Eliciting Patient Narratives emphasizes that rigorous methods are needed to elicit patient experiences. Both briefs identify areas in which more research is needed about patients’ diagnostic experience.