1-Excellence in Patient Safety
Many patient safety initiatives have been implemented, resulting in substantial improvements. The development of the National Patient Safety Strategy is important for generating a shared vision for safer healthcare systems, learning, responding appropriately, and acting to reduce patient harm in alignment with the global movement for patient safety.
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving patient safety strategies by implementing innovative programs or projects to achieve patient safety strategies at the organizational level aligned with the global movement in patient safety.
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Patient safety policy, strategy to eliminate avoidable harm in health care.
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Achievement in change management and pursuing patient safety culture.
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Implement and sustain patient safety incident reporting and learning systems.
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Integration of patient safety with technical programs and initiatives at the organization.
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Integrated care and partnership working in patient safety.
2-Engaging Patients in Patient Safety
Patient and family engagement is integral to developing high-quality, integrated, and people-centered health services. Treating patients as partners in healthcare leads to significant gains in safety, patient satisfaction, and health outcomes. If the patients were actively involved in healthcare, they would be one of the main contributors to the safety of the healthcare system. In this context, "Engaging patients for patient safety" has been selected as the theme for World Patient Safety Day 2023.
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving patients' engagement for patient safety by implementing innovative programs, projects, strategies, or technology that actively engage patients in co-designing safety strategies.
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Engage patients in co-designing safety policies and strategies as partners in safe healthcare.
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Applied projects to improve providers-patient communication.
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Improve patient's long-term health and well-being.
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Adopt technology or platform that drives patient engagement.
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Promote Patient Empowerment and Community Engagement for Patient Safety
3-Safe Maternity and Newborn Care
There has been a lot of focus on improving the continuity and safety of health care, given the high burden of risks and harm to mothers and newborns due to unsafe health care.
The award in this track will recognize those who are making significant progress in improving the safety of maternity and midwifery services by implementing novel and innovative programs or technologies for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates, risks, and harm during childbirth, and improving women and newborn quality and care safety.
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Promote respectful care for safe childbirth.
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Report and analyze safety incidents in childbirth.
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Prevention and Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage.
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Reduce practices that are unnecessary and harmful to women and newborns during childbirth.
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Safe cesarean birth/patient safety training and strengthening capacity of health workers.
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Improving detection of high-risk pregnancies management in low-resource settings.
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Improve safe use of medication and blood transfusion during childbirth.
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Improving outcomes of newborn screening and genetics management.
4-Medication Without Harm
Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are the leading causes of avoidable harm in health care across the world. In addition, the economic and psychological burden of unsafe medication care is unneglectable. Therefore, medication safety is widely utilized in healthcare interventions.
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving medication safety by implementing innovative programs, projects, strategies, or technologies towards achieving medication without harm:
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Improve medication safety at transitions of care.
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Reduce the risk in high-risk situations.
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Reduce the level of inappropriate polypharmacy.
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Reporting and learning from medication errors.
5-Safe Surgery
Surgical care has been a vital component of healthcare systems worldwide for more than a century. Although there have been significant advancements over the last several decades, mortality from general anesthesia alone is reported to be as high. Infections and other postoperative morbidities are also a serious concern around the world. Although surgical procedures are intended to save lives, unsafe surgical care can cause significant harm.
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving surgical safety by implementing novel and innovative programs or technologies for reducing unsafe surgical care, risks, and harm during surgery and improving the quality of care.
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Safe anesthesia and safe surgical teams.
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Measurement and improvement of surgical services.
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Improving patient safety in the surgical environment.
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Applied projects to improve providers-patient communication.
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Improving surgical site infection prevention and care outcomes.
6-Patient Safety Training:In Partnership with Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS)
Training is an absolute requirement for all healthcare professionals. The healthcare sector is constantly changing, and best practices today can rapidly change in a decade. As a result, continuing training is a necessity for any healthcare professional starting from trainees, to ensure high, safe patient care.
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving training, effectively integrating patient safety concepts, and demonstrating excellence in patient safety training, on the following topics:
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Integrate patient safety learning and practice into the educational and training curricula.
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Innovative training and teaching strategies in patient safety.
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Creating a culture of shared learning.
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Training intervention to enhance leaders' perceptions of patient safety.
7-Choosing Wisely Track:
This track will focus on choosing wisely applied projects across the Saudi healthcare sector that promote patient-physician conversations to reduce unnecessary medical tests, procedures, and cost. by helping patients choose care that is evidence-based that is not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received, not harmful, and truly necessary.
The award in this track will recognize those who applied choosing wisely projects successfully with remarkable results in the following areas:
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Emergency Department
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Primary healthcare
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Pharmacy
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Radiology
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Laboratory
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Other areas
8-General Patient Safety Track:
The award in this track will recognize those making significant progress in improving patient safety by introducing new and innovative systems, programs, initiatives, applied technologies, and projects aimed to obtain high-quality outcomes in the following
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Patient safety improvement through technology.
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Mental well-being at the workplace.
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Workforce knowledge and safety as the drivers for Patient Safety.
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Reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
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Patient safety in primary care and remote areas.
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Urgent and emergency care safety.
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Improving care for older people and home care services.