Internal improvement tools
Working package 6: Instruments for improving patient safety in Health Care Organisations
Final Report, March 2007, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (CBO)
Authors: JJE van Everdingen *, SM Smorenburg **, WMLCM Schellekens ***, S Cucic *
* CBO, PO Box 20064, 3502 LB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 30-284 3900, Fax: +31 30-294 3644,
e-mail: simpatie@cbo.nl or cbo@cbo.nl
** Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 20-566 9111, Fax: +31 20-566 4440, or via http://www.amc.nl
*** State Inspectorate for Health, Po Box 16119, 2500 BC The Hague, The Netherlands. Phone: +31 70-340 7911, Fax: +31 70-340 7834, e-mail: hi.higz@igz.nl
The full text submitted to the EC has also been published as 'Patient Safety Toolbox: instruments
for improving safety in health care organisations. The text provided here gives a summarized
overview only of all chapters of the publication produced for the SIMPATIE project.
This publication has been produced as part of the activities surrounding the development of a set
of instruments for safety evaluation and improvement in health care organisations.
The book can be obtained through a publisher in the Netherlands and a publisher in Belgium
More information
This workpackage of the SIMPATIE project contains recommendations for internal evaluation of health
services with regard to patient safety, including a set of instruments that can be used for improvement.
Please find:
Besides clicking on these links, one can use the menu (see: related) on the right for information, about:
- the SIMPATIE project in general, and
- the different work packages
NOTE: references used in the report of this workpackage are saved in an adjoining folder. When a
number or letter is shown in the text, it is clickable and connects with the relevant folder
Organisation of this overview
In order to be both practical and optimal in terms of web-enabled functions, overviews of the reports of the Work Packages of the SIMPATIE project were organised in two ways:
- ONE - following the basic reporting structure developed for all reports (limited here):
- TWO - following the table of content and the main paragraphs of a specific report
All headings are interconnected and clickable. Just follow the route prepared for a web-enabled overview. Of course you can always use the full text or use the 'search a framework' function.
