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
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
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.