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
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
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.
Iatrogenic harm and anaesthesia in Australia. Editorial.
Runciman WB
Anaesth Intensive Care 2005; 33(3):297-300
2005
Violence in health care: the contribution of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation to incident monitoring and analysis
Benveniste KA, Hibbert PD, Runciman WB
Medical Journal of Australia 2005;183:348-351
2005
Crises in clinical care: an approach to management.
Runciman WB, Merry AF.
Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14(3):156-63.
2005
A tragic death: a time to blame or a time to learn?
Runciman WB, Merry AF
Qual Saf Health Care 2003; 12:321-2.
2003
Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveill
Runciman WB.
Qual Saf Health Care 2002; 11:246-51.
2002
Setting priorities for patient safety.
Runciman WB, Edmonds MJ, Pradhan M
Qual Saf Health Care 2002; 11:224-9.
2002
Crisis management during anaesthesia: the development of an anaesthetic crisis management manual.
Runciman WB, Kluger MT, Morris RW, Paix AD, Watterson LM, Webb RK.
Qual Saf Health Care. 2005;14(3):e1.
2005