Engaging patients as safety partners a guide for reducing errors and improving satisfaction amazonde spath patrice l fremdsprachige bucher wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen . Engaging patients as safety partners with health service providers to help identify and rectify preventable adverse events in health care is being increasingly accepted in the usa australia and elsewhere as a promising strategy to improve patient safety outcomes the implications of this trend for patients and families of minority cultural and language backgrounds have not however been comprehensively considered in this article attention is given to briefly exploring . Engaging patients as safety partners with health service providers to help identify and rectify preventable adverse events in health care is being increasingly accepted in the usa australia and elsewhere as a promising strategy to improve patient safety outcomes the implications of this trend for patients and families of minority cultural and . Engaging patients as safety partners builds on and updates an earlier book edited by patrice spath partnering with patients to reduce medical errors this new book provides proven solid ground for health care organizations following the joint commission s national patient safety goals requiring organizations to encourage patients active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy the book builds upon research that indicates that there are fewer adverse events and harmful . Patients share a positive attitude about engaging in their safety at a general level but their intentions and actual behaviors vary considerably studies applied theories of planned behavior and indicate that self efficacy preventability of incidents and effectiveness of actions seem to be central to patients intention to engage in error prevention rigorous evaluations of major educational campaigns are lacking interventions embedded within clinical settings have been effective to some