Australian Patient Safety Foundation
The Australian Patient Safety Foundation Inc. (APSF) is a non-profit independent organisation dedicated to the advancement of patient safety.
The APSF has provided leadership in the reduction of harm to patients in all healthcare environments since 1988. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, the APSF works with Commonwealth and State governments, researchers, professional organisations, Colleges, healthcare professionals and consumers at the national and international level to improve outcomes for patients.
Articles & Resources
Measures of patient safety in developing and emerging countries: a review of the literature
Percarpio KB, Duevel MA, Lee PW, Wu AW, Bates DW, Runciman WB, Baker GR, Larizgoitia I, Weeks WB
Qual Saf Health Care 19:48-54
2010
The World Alliance for Patient Safety was formed to accelerate worldwide research progress towards measurably improving patient safety. Although rates of adverse events have been studied in industrialised countries, little is known about the rates of adverse events in developing and emerging countries.
Patient safety: time for a transformational change in medical education
Runciman WB
Med J Aust 193 (1): 3-4.
2010
A major change in medical teaching practices is needed to improve patient safety
Tracing the foundations of a conceptual framework for a patient safety ontology
Runciman WB, Baker GR, Michel P, Dovey S, Lilford RJ, Jensen N, Flin R, Weeks WB, Lewalle P, Larizgoitia I.
Qual Saf Health Care - Published Online First: 10 August 2010 doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.031922
2010
In work for the World Alliance for Patient Safety on research methods and measures and on defining key concepts for an International Patient Safety Classification (ICPS), it became apparent that there was a need to try to understand how the meaning of patient safety and underlying concepts relate to the existing safety and quality frameworks commonly used in healthcare.
Measuring the context of care in an Australian acute care hospital: a nurse survey
Timothy J Schultz, Alison L Kitson
Implementation Science 5: 60
2010
This study set out to achieve three objectives: to test the application of a context assessment tool in an acute hospital in South Australia; to use the tool to compare context in wards that had undergone an evidence implementation process with control wards; and finally to test for relationships between demographic variables (in particular experience) of nurses being studied (n= 422) with the dimensions of context.
Regulating clinical practice.
Runciman WB, Lumby J.
In: Healy J and Dugdale P, editors. Patient Safety First: Responsive Regulation in Health Care. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2009:192-220.
2009
Book chapter
Health service accreditation as a predictor of clinical and organizational performance: a blinded, random, stratified study.
Braithwaite J, Greenfield D, Westbrook J, Pawsey M, Westbrook M, Gibberd R, Naylor J, Nathan S, Robinson M, Runciman B, Jackson M, Travaglia J, Johnston B, Yen D, McDonald H, Low L, Redman S, Johnson B, Corbett A, Hennessy D, Clark J, Lancaster J.
Health service accreditation as a predictor of clinical and organizational performance: a blinded, random, stratified study. Qual Saf Health Care 2010;19:14-21.
2010
Journal article
Towards safer, better healthcare: harnessing the natural properties of complex sociotechnical systems
J Braithwaite, W B Runciman and A F Merry
Qual. Saf. Health Care 2009;18;37-41
Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: key concepts and terms
Runciman W. Hibbert P. Thomson R. Van Der Schaaf T. Sherman H. Lewalle P.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 21(1):18-26, 2009 Feb.
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Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: a Delphi survey
Thomson R. Lewalle P. Sherman H. Hibbert P. Runciman W. Castro G.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 21(1):9-17, 2009 Feb.
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Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: the conceptual framework
World Alliance For Patient Safety Drafting Group. Sherman H. Castro G. Fletcher M. World Alliance for Patient Safety. Hatlie M. Hibbert P. Jakob R. Koss R. Lewalle P. Loeb J. Perneger T. Runciman W. Thomson R. Van Der Schaaf T. Virtanen M.
International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 21(1):2-8, 2009 Feb.
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