Interactive Recommendation(2006)7

Welcome to the 'Interactive Recommendation (2006)7 on management of patient safety and prevention of adverse events in health care'

Context

The text of this interactive recommendation is based on Recommendation(2006)7 of the Council of Europe on management of patient safety and prevention of adverse events in health care. This Recommendation was adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 24 May 2006. For the purpose of the Simpatie project this text has been transformed into a living or interactive recommendation. The aim of this interactive recommendation is to provide a medium for professionals, organisations and the general public to comment on the text of the Council of Europe's Recommendation (2006)7.

Viewing options

In this document you will see the text of the Recommendation (2006)7 including all the comments made to it so far.
The language of use in the interactive recommendation is English.

You can open the interactive recommendation by using the following link:

• Interactive Recommendation (2006)7 of the Council of Europe on management of patient safety and prevention of adverse events in health care

To view the text without all the comments you can use the following links:

to the English version of Rec(2006)7

to the French version of Rec(2006)7

More information about the work of the Council of Europe can be found on their website (www.coe.int).

Structure of the interactive recommendation

The interactive recommendation contains several chapters which constitute the whole text of Rec(2006)7 including the appendixes:
1. Text of Recommendation
2. Appendix A: Prerequisites
3. Appendix B. Cultures of safety/environment
4. Appendix C. Assessment of patient safety – The role of indicators
5. Appendix D. Data sources – Reporting systems
6. Appendix E. Medication safety – A specific strategy to promote patient safety
7. Appendix F. Human factors
8. Appendix G. Patients’ empowerment and citizens’ participation
9. Appendix H. Patient-safety education
10. Appendix I. Research agenda
11. Appendix J. Legal framework
12. Appendix K. Implementation of the patient-safety policy

How to place a comment?

Each chapter contains at the end a comment area. By clicking on the comment button, you can add a comment to the specific chapter in the document. After pressing ‘okay’ your comment will be visible for everyone that visits this site. Everybody can place comments to the interactive recommendation. Only comments related to the Recommendation will be allowed, any unrelated information will be deleted.

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