Improving Patient Safety in the Inpatient Setting Through Risk Assessment and Mitigation

The care process for patients with cancer is particularly complex and affected by multiple factors that can impact patient safety. A detailed analysis of the entire care process allowed the author’s institution to identify critical points that affect patient safety and to implement safer practices. The treatment of patients with cancer is unique in that it requires numerous, successive, and interrelated interventions by different healthcare professionals (pharmacists, doctors, nurses, nursing assistants).