Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Patient Safety

Patient safety is the discipline concerned with preventing avoidable harm to patients during the delivery of health care, through the design of systems, processes, and cultures that reduce error and mitigate its consequences. It encompasses clinical risk management, the recognition and reporting of adverse events, m…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 20× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2640-690X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Patient safety is the discipline concerned with preventing avoidable harm to patients during the delivery of health care, through the design of systems, processes, and cultures that reduce error and mitigate its consequences. It encompasses clinical risk management, the recognition and reporting of adverse events, medication safety, infection prevention, and the building of high-reliability organizations that learn from near-misses rather than assigning individual blame. Central methods include standardized documentation, structured quality-improvement frameworks, decision-support tools, and the systematic study of how errors arise at the interface of people, technology, and workflow. In Family Medicine and general practice, safety spans accurate diagnosis, safe prescribing, continuity of care, and coordination across providers. Research in this area examines clinical risk management in general practice, high-reliability principles supported by electronic health record systems, and the evaluation of quality-improvement strategies in healthcare facilities. Other work addresses adverse drug event standardization and codification, refined medication and adverse-event definitions, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical decision support for analgesia and pain monitoring, and governance issues such as peer review. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the systems, practices, and measurement that underpin safer care and the reduction of preventable patient harm.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 20 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Patient Safety, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Family Medicine (ISSN 2640-690X).

Journal editorial board
Dr. John P. Bartkowski · United States Dr. Angela Pia Cazzolla · Italy Dr. Ian James Martins · Australia

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