Improving quality of care and patient safety as a priority

International Journal for Quality in Health Care (IJQHC) presents interesting studies in this issue mainly focusing on improving quality of care and patient safety.

Jeffrey and his colleagues [1] shed light on current approach to patient safety that current approach to patient safety, labeled Safety-I, is predicated on a ‘find and fix’ model. This helps to identifies that how things going wrong, after the event, and aims to stamp them out, in order to ensure that the number of errors is as low as possible. The Healthcare systems are much more complex; therefore, they suggested that we need to switch the focus to Safety-II: a concerted effort to enable things to go right more often. Patient safety usually requires more than prevention, elimination and compliance. So, the key is to appreciate that healthcare is resilient to a large extent, and everyday performance succeeds much more often than it fails. This new paradigm would help clinicians in facilitating work flexibility and actively increase the capacity of clinicians to deliver more care more effectively as they constantly adjust what they do to match the conditions.