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1 . 2021

World Patient Safety Day: raising awareness of citizens about the quality and safety of medical activity

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the organization of World Patient Safety Day in the Russian Federation. The main purpose of the World Safety Day events is to raise public awareness of the problem of patient safety around the world, to increase public participation in improving the quality and safety of medical care. The World Health Organization considers the safety of health workers and patients in 2020 in a comprehensive manner Within the framework of an international company, events dedicated to patient safety are being held in the Russian Federation for the second year at federal and regional levels with the support of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare.

Keywords:patient safety, safety of health care worker, health care, safety culture in a medical organization

Funding. This article was published without financial support.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

Contribution. Idea, preparation and implementation of the initial project, conceptualization, review and editing -Ivanov I.V.; data collection, conceptualization, viewing and editing, making the necessary corrections -Shvabskiy O.R.; processing and analysis of the data obtained - Minulin I.B.; preparation and implementation of the initial project, making the necessary corrections - Matytsin N.O.; analysis of foreign and domestic literature, collection and processing of primary data, writing a work, preparation and presentation of the illustrative part of the work - Shcheblykina A.A.; analysis of foreign and domestic literature, preparation of descriptive and analytical parts of the work - Taut D.F., Martovitskaya A.D.

For citation: Ivanov I.V., Shvabskiy O.R., Minulin I.B., Matytsin N.O., Shcheblykina A.A., Taut D.F., Martovitskaya A.D. World patient safety day: raising awareness of citizens about the quality and safety of medical activity. ORGZDRAV: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie. Vestnik VSHOUZ [HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT: News, Views, Education. Bulletin of VSHOUZ]. 2021; 7 (1): 92-100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33029/2411-8621-2021-7-1-92-100 (in Russian)

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CHIEF EDITOR
Guzel E. Ulumbekova
MD, MBA from Harvard University (Boston, USA), Head of the Graduate School of Healthcare Organization and Management (VSHOUZ)

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