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The National Patient Safety Foundation is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. ==History== The National Patient Safety Foundation began as an idea proposed in 1996 at a large conference on medical error that was organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower Medical Center in California and funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. At that meeting, representatives of the AMA announced plans to form a foundation that would be “a collaborative initiative involving all members of the healthcare community aimed at stimulating leadership, fostering awareness, and enhancing patient safety knowledge creation, dissemination and implementation."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History and Timeline )〕 Among the foundations early activities was a survey of public opinion of patient safety issues. The survey, conducted by Louis Harris & Associates (2000) revealed that more than 4 out of 5 respondents (84%) had heard about a situation where a medical mistake had been made. More than one-third of respondents (42%) had been involved, either personally or through a friend or relative, in a situation where a medical error was made.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Public Opinion of Patient Safety Issues )〕 NPSF is home to the Lucian Leape Institute, a think tank named for and led by the renowned patient safety leader, Dr. Lucian Leape. Established in 2007, the Institute’s charter is “to identify new approaches to improving patient safety, call for the innovation necessary to expedite the work, create significant, sustainable improvements in culture, process, and outcomes, and encourage key stakeholders to assume significant roles in advancing patient safety.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lucian Leape Institute at NPSF )〕 One of the Institute’s first activities was publication of an article that identified concepts deemed “as fundamental to the endeavor of achieving meaningful improvement in healthcare system safety.” The five concepts are transparency, care integration, patient/consumer engagement, medical education reform, and health care workforce safety and the restoration of joy and meaning in work. The Institute has published white papers on some of these themes, including Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning, and Safer Health Care (2013) and Unmet Needs: Teaching Physicians to Provide Safe Patient Care. Institute members also speak on these topics and present annual open forums at NPSF events, such as the Annual Patient Safety Congress. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Patient Safety Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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