Key result
SAEM task force develops a new curriculum for teaching patient safety in emergency medicine.
Why the study?
Growing awareness of medical error and inadequacies in health care delivery systems highlighted the need for patient safety education in emergency medicine training.
Presents a curriculum developed by the SAEM Patient Safety Task Force for teaching patient safety in emergency medicine.
May guide EM patient safety curricula; leaves open effectiveness and requires outcome validation before adoption.
The last decade has witnessed a growing awareness of medical error and the inadequacies of our health care delivery systems. The Harvard Practice Study and subsequent Institute of Medicine Reports brought national attention to long-overlooked problems with health care quality and patient safety. The Committee on Quality of Health Care in America challenged professional societies to develop curriculums on patient safety and adopt patient safety teaching into their training and certification requirements. The Patient Safety Task Force of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) was charged with that mission. The curriculum presented here offers an approach to teaching patient safety in emergency medicine.
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Cosby et al. (2003) studied Patient safety in emergency medicine. Patient safety curriculum was evaluated. The Patient Safety Task Force of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine developed a curriculum offering an approach to teaching patient safety in emergency medicine.
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