Patients for Patient Safety

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

Patient safety and patients' rights.

Upon initial examination, efforts toward achieving these 2 goals appear philosophically complementary. For example, both tout as a primary benefit improvement of access to health care services. However, closer inspection of these initiatives' more prominent features reveals seemingly irreconcilable demands. As described below, the push toward consumer-driven health plans as a way to offer affor...

When Patients Speak—Collaboration in Patient Safety

T he patient is one of the most important allies in reducing medical errors. Research indicates that when patients actively participate in their overall healthcare management, medical errors are reduced. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports have supported this concept, as well. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System not only reported that as many as 98,000 deaths occur annually due ...

Partnership with patients to improve patient safety.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 18 January 2010 192 2 63-64 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au Editorials reduce preventable harm to patients. However, a have not been measurably reduced. Many ackn barriers to change are embedded in the culture a health care. So, 15 years after the QAHCS and 5 follow-up editorial in the Journal by Wilson and Van noting that he...

Designing for Patient Safety