Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Developing a Systems View (Patient Safety I)
Completed by Dr Kavitha Somasundaram
September 24, 2025
5 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
Describe a minimum of four key events in the history of patient safety and quality improvement.
Define the key characteristics of high reliability organizations.
Explain the benefits of having strategies for both proactive and reactive systems thinking.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Safety Standards
- Category: Health Systems
- Category: Health Care
- Category: Quality Improvement
- Category: Patient Safety
- Category: Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
- Category: Risk Management
- Category: Risk Analysis
- Category: Systems Thinking
