1- Partnership in Patient SafetyAim: This track focuses on the successfully adopted and implemented of a previously awarded project of the National Patient Safety Award. It aims to highlight the impact and outcomes of these initiatives when applied in different settings, demonstrating their scalability and effectiveness.
Description: Participants in this track are required to showcase how they have adapted and integrated a winning project from past awards into their own healthcare practices. They should provide evidence of improved patient safety outcomes, share best practices, and illustrate the project's influence on fostering a culture of safety within their organization.Topics: All Patient Safety topics Criteria:
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Evidence of successful implementation of a previously awarded project.
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Demonstrated impact on patient safety outcomes.
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Documentation of challenges, adaptations, and lessons learned.
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Evidence of collaboration with the winning project.
2- Track for University Students and InternsAim: This track is designed to engage and inspire the next generation of healthcare professionals by encouraging university students and interns to develop and present innovative ideas and solutions for patient safety. Description: Open to students and interns in healthcare-related fields, this track invites submissions of original projects, research, or initiatives to improve patient safety. Participants are encouraged to think creatively and leverage new technologies, processes, or educational tools to enhance safety practices.Topics: All Patient Safety topics Criteria:
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Originality and innovation of the proposed solution.
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Potential impact on patient safety.
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Feasibility and practicality of implementation.
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Clear methodology.
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Engagement with current patient safety challenges and trends.
3- Diagnostic Safety
Aim: This track aims to recognize outstanding innovations and best practices in the field of diagnostic safety that enhance patient safety throughout the surgical process.
Description: Participants are invited to submit projects demonstrating significant advancements in diagnostic safety, focusing on preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases. Submissions should highlight improvements in safety protocols, use of advanced technologies, patient outcomes, and overall diagnostic safety practices.
Topics: - Innovation in diagnostic techniques and technologies.
- Improvement in safety protocols and procedures.
Criteria:- Demonstrated positive impact on patient outcomes.
- Integration of comprehensive preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative safety measures.
- Evidence-based results and data supporting the project's success.
4- Engaging Patients in Patient Safety Aim: this track aims to recognize those making significant progress in improving patients' engagement for patient safety by implementing innovative programs, projects, strategies, or technology that actively engage patients in co-designing safety strategies.Description: This track focuses on improving patient and family engagement in developing high-quality, integrated, and people-centered health services. Treating patients as partners in healthcare leads to significant gains in safety, patient satisfaction, and health outcomes. If patients were actively involved in healthcare, they would be one of the main contributors to the safety of the healthcare system. Topics:
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Engage patients in co-designing safety policies and strategies as partners in safe healthcare.
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Applied projects to improve provider-patient communication.
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Improve patient's long-term health and well-being.
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Adopt technology or platform that drives patient engagement.
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Promote Patient Empowerment and Community Engagement for Patient Safety.
5- Safe Maternity and Newborn CareAim: this track aims to recognize those who are making significant progress in improving the safety of maternity and newborn care by implementing novel and innovative programs or technologies for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality rates, risks, and harm during delivery and improving the quality and safety of care. Description: Participants are invited to submit projects that demonstrate significant progress in the safety of care for mothers and newborns. Submissions must highlight improvements that contribute to reducing maternal mortality rates, risks and harm.Topics:
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Promote care and safe delivery.
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Report and analyze safety incidents during delivery.
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Prevention and Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage.
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Reduce practices that are unnecessary and harmful to women and newborns during delivery.
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Safe cesarean birth/patient safety training and strengthening capacity of health workers.
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Improving detection of high-risk pregnancies management in low-resource settings.
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Improve safe use of medication and blood transfusion during delivery.
6- Medication Safety
Aim: This track aims to recognize those making significant progress in improving medication safety by implementing innovative programs, projects, strategies, or technologies that aim to achieve medication without harm.Description: Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are the leading causes of avoidable harm in health care worldwide. In addition, the economic and psychological burden of unsafe medication care is unneglectable. Therefore, medication safety is widely utilized in healthcare interventions.Topics:
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Improve medication safety at transitions of care.
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Reduce the risk in high-risk situations.
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Reduce the level of inappropriate polypharmacy.
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Reporting and learning from medication errors.
7- Safe Surgery
Aim: this track aims to recognize those making significant progress in improving surgical safety by implementing novel and innovative programs or technologies for reducing unsafe surgical care, risks, and harm during surgery and improving the quality of care.
Description: Surgical care has been a vital component of healthcare systems worldwide for more than a century. Although there have been significant advancements over the last several decades, mortality from general anesthesia alone is reported to be as high. Infections and other postoperative morbidities are also a serious concern around the world. Although surgical procedures are intended to save lives, unsafe surgical care can cause significant harm.
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Safe anesthesia and safe surgical teams.
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Measurement and improvement of surgical services.
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Improving patient safety in the surgical environment.
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Improving surgical site infection prevention and care outcomes.
8- Patient Safety Training: In Partnership with Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS)
Aim: this track aims to recognize those making significant progress in improving training, effectively integrating patient safety concepts, and demonstrating excellence in patient safety training
Description: Training is an absolute requirement for all healthcare professionals. The healthcare sector is constantly changing, and best practices today can rapidly change in a decade. As a result, continuing training is a necessity for any healthcare professional starting from trainees, to ensure high, safe patient care.
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Integrate patient safety learning and practice into the educational and training curricula.
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Innovative training and teaching strategies in patient safety.
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Creating a culture of shared learning.
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Training intervention to enhance leaders' perceptions of patient safety.
9- Choosing Wisely TrackAim: this track will aim to recognize those who applied choosing wisely projects successfully with remarkable results.
Description: This track will focus on choosing wisely applied projects across the healthcare sector that promote patient-physician conversations to reduce unnecessary medical tests, procedures, and cost. by helping patients choose care that is evidence-based that is not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received, not harmful, and truly necessary.
The award in this track will be given in recognition of those who have successfully implemented Choosing Wisely initiatives and achieved notable results in the following areas:
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Emergency Department
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Primary healthcare
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Pharmacy
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Radiology
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Laboratory
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Other areas
10- General Patient Safety TrackAim: this track aim to recognize those making significant progress in improving patient safety by introducing new and innovative systems, programs, initiatives, applied technologies, and projects aimed to obtain high-quality outcomes in the following:
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Patient safety improvement through technology.
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Mental well-being at the workplace.
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Workforce knowledge and safety as the drivers for Patient Safety.
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Reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections.
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Patient safety in primary care and remote areas.
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Urgent and emergency care safety.
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Improving care for older people and home care services
11- Mentorship TrackAim: This track acknowledges individuals or organizations who support and mentor in implementing and adapting their patient safety projects by providing guidance.
Description: Participants in this track will mentor their colleagues to help implement their patient safety initiatives. The focus is on enhancing collaboration and sharing experiences by advising peers, facilitating the adoption of innovative practices, and ensuring the successful integration of these projects into their healthcare settings.
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Clear description of the patient safety project and its objectives.
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Evidence of initial planning and groundwork.
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Willingness to provide and incorporate feedback and guidance.
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Demonstrated potential for the project to improve patient safety.
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Commitment to fostering and supporting the other team within their organization
