Abstract
In contemporary healthcare settings, ensuring patient safety must be an underlying principal through which systems, teams, individuals and environments work in tandem to strive for. The adoption of a culture in the NHS where patient safety is given greater priority is key to improvement. Recent events at Mid-Staffordshire hospitals among others have brought patient safety into the minds of the public and it increasingly demands attention from clinicians, the press and governments. However, much of the work into patient safety has been completed in the secondary care field with very little work completed in primary care settings. In primary care dentistry, improving patient safety is a relatively new concept with a distinct lack of evidence base. In this article, we discuss what patient safety is and debate its relevance to primary care dentistry. We also look at previous work completed in this field and make recommendations for future work to address the current lack of research.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 339-344 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | BDJ |
| Volume | 217 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Patient safety in primary care dentistry: Where are we now? / Bailey, Edmund; Tickle, Martin; Campbell, Stephen.
In: BDJ, Vol. 217, No. 7, 2014, p. 339-344.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Patient safety in primary care dentistry: Where are we now?
AU - Bailey, Edmund
AU - Tickle, Martin
AU - Campbell, Stephen
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In contemporary healthcare settings, ensuring patient safety must be an underlying principal through which systems, teams, individuals and environments work in tandem to strive for. The adoption of a culture in the NHS where patient safety is given greater priority is key to improvement. Recent events at Mid-Staffordshire hospitals among others have brought patient safety into the minds of the public and it increasingly demands attention from clinicians, the press and governments. However, much of the work into patient safety has been completed in the secondary care field with very little work completed in primary care settings. In primary care dentistry, improving patient safety is a relatively new concept with a distinct lack of evidence base. In this article, we discuss what patient safety is and debate its relevance to primary care dentistry. We also look at previous work completed in this field and make recommendations for future work to address the current lack of research.
AB - In contemporary healthcare settings, ensuring patient safety must be an underlying principal through which systems, teams, individuals and environments work in tandem to strive for. The adoption of a culture in the NHS where patient safety is given greater priority is key to improvement. Recent events at Mid-Staffordshire hospitals among others have brought patient safety into the minds of the public and it increasingly demands attention from clinicians, the press and governments. However, much of the work into patient safety has been completed in the secondary care field with very little work completed in primary care settings. In primary care dentistry, improving patient safety is a relatively new concept with a distinct lack of evidence base. In this article, we discuss what patient safety is and debate its relevance to primary care dentistry. We also look at previous work completed in this field and make recommendations for future work to address the current lack of research.
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U2 - 10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.857
DO - 10.1038/sj.bdj.2014.857
M3 - Article
VL - 217
SP - 339
EP - 344
JO - British Dental Journal
JF - British Dental Journal
SN - 0007-0610
IS - 7
ER -