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Patient Safety

Preventable patient harms, including medical errors and healthcare-associated complications, are a global public health threat. Moreover, patients frequently do not receive treatments and interventions known to improve their outcomes. These shortcomings typically result not from individual clinicians’ mistakes, but from systemic problems -- communication breakdowns, poor teamwork, and poorly designed care processes, to name a few. The Patient Safety & Quality Leadership Specialization covers the concepts and methodologies used in process improvement within healthcare. Successful participants will develop a system’s view of safety and quality challenges and will learn strategies for improving culture, enhancing teamwork, managing change and measuring success. They will also lead all aspects of a patient safety and/or quality improvement project, applying the methods described over the seven courses in the specialization.

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Top reviews across Patient Safety

Reviewed Dec 22, 2018
Course: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Developing a Systems View (Patient Safety I)

I work in this field and found all of the material, lectures and quiz material/testing to be exactly what a practitioner needs to focus on patient safety. Thank you!

Reviewed Mar 13, 2019
Course: Setting the Stage for Success: An Eye on Safety Culture and Teamwork (Patient Safety II)

Wonderful feeling! i completed two courses and learned many useful aspects. Will be taking third course as well. Thanks Coursera! This is an amazing step to improve world.

Reviewed May 21, 2020
Course: Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)

The assignment looked easy and simple at first. But when you started working on it and saw how it was being scored, it was way more comprehensive than I thought. Job well done to organising team!

Reviewed Aug 15, 2020
Course: Designing for Sustainment: Keeping Improvement Work on Track (Patient Safety IV)

Great course i find it very informative and easy to learn step by step and the peer graded assignment is helpful in demonstrating what have you learned

Reviewed Nov 27, 2020
Course: Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)

this course was a bit difficult for me....but i persevered

Reviewed Sep 6, 2020
Course: Measuring the Success of a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety VI)

This course was really helpful for me. But it is difficult to get peer reviews for the peer-graded assignment.

Reviewed Apr 19, 2025
Course: Taking Safety and Quality Improvement Work to the Next Level (Patient Safety VII)

I have a change to learn how to taking safety and quality improvement works in properly way, thanks to Coursera

Reviewed Jun 11, 2020
Course: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement: Developing a Systems View (Patient Safety I)

I really enjoyed each lesson, I felt so comfortable with lectures coming from such professors. My goal is complete the full specialization in order to excel my career. Thanks Coursera.

Reviewed Jun 5, 2019
Course: Setting the Stage for Success: An Eye on Safety Culture and Teamwork (Patient Safety II)

Extremely value added learning. Communication is crux of any event. Thanks Jhons Hopkins & Thanks Coursera.

Reviewed Aug 6, 2020
Course: Planning a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety III)

Great course helped me a lot to learn how to start A3 project

Reviewed Jul 26, 2018
Course: Designing for Sustainment: Keeping Improvement Work on Track (Patient Safety IV)

Very informative and important course for quality improvement.Thank you very much Coursera .

Reviewed Mar 11, 2025
Course: Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)

Excellant Topic and Meticulously designed teaching mentors,Great efforts done by the mentors to explain the topic.

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