Australian Patient Safety Foundation

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 provides leadership in the reduction of harm to patients in all health care environments.

Through its subsidiary Patient Safety International (PSI), the APSF provides a software tool, the Advanced Incident Management System (AIMS) to capture information from a wide variety of sources to enable de-construction and classification of incidents from near misses to sentinel events in a consistent way, so that subsequent, detailed analysis is possible.

Articles & Resources

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

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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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Teams communicating through STEPPS

Karen Stead, Saravana Kumar, Timothy J Schultz, Sue Tiver, Christy J Pirone, Robert J Adams and Conrad A Wareham

MJA 2009; 190 (11): S128-S132

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An integrated framework for safety, quality and risk management: an information and incident management system based on a universal taxonomy.

Runciman WB, Williamson JA, Deakin A, Benveniste KA, Bannon K, Hibbert PD.

Quality and Safety in Health Care 2006;15(Suppl.I):i82-i90.

2006

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Safety and Ethics in Healthcare: A Guide to Getting it Right.

Runciman B, Merry A, Walton M.

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

2007

A NEW TEXTBOOK ON PATIENT SAFETY. Details are available on the ASHGATE website. See http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&pageSubject=346&calcTitle=1&title_id=8040&edition_id=8575

Published Articles on Patient Safety

Benveniste KA (Editor)

Australian Patient Safety Foundation Nov 2005

2005

A list of published articles on patient safety to the end of 2005. Including - Early research on anaesthesia equipment, - The Australian Incident Monitoring Study, - The Quality in Australian Health Care Study, and - Applications of the incident monitoring software - and methods and protocols developed by the A.P.S.F.

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