Articles in English for an international audience regarding the work of the Danish Society for Patient Safety – involving patient safety and improvement methods and everything in-between.
This article focusses on ‘double-win’ steps that can be taken by anyone who prescribes psychiatric medication. These steps can directly benefit our patients while also minimising health harms to wider society.
A method for transforming ambitious goals to change mental health care provision into reality
At the end of this year, we would like to invite you to take a few moments to pause and imagine the future and what role compassion has in healthcare, and importantly, how you can make an impact, because as we know, compassion is more than empathy; it includes the…
The following blog is based around a conversation between Pernille Cedergreen (Chief Physician, Dept. for Anesthesia, Surgery and Intensive Care, Herlev & Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen) and members of the MeSu (Mental sundhed for sundhedsprofessionelle*) project team comprising clinical, research and improvement experts. As head of the clinical leadership team, Dr…
When the historians summarise 2020 as a chapter in a book, it is likely that it will end with a cliff-hanger; on the horizon are various COVID-19 vaccines which will likely help return our lives back to normality. But how will this next phase of our COVID-19 experience go?
Pressure ulcers are very painful to patients and expensive for health care. In Denmark, nursing homes for the most fragile elderly have effectively eliminated pressure ulcers, some care homes have not had a patient with a pressure ulcer for over two years! Acute hospitals report similar results.
…but let’s not forget to put a black box in the plane before we launch it.
Internationally, there is a growing awareness on diagnostic errors as a major – and so far, overlooked patient safety problem. The Danish Society for Patient Safety and Danish Patient Compensation Association have analyzed the area more closely in Danish context.
In 2014 we started two learning networks in Norway. We wanted to create better and more health promoting pathways for elderly and people with long term conditions. We had two interventions: The first reaction on the interventions was inspiring. The pathway appealed to the heads and asking “What matters to…
Two years ago my dear friend Shaun Maher from Scotland invited me to share my personal «What matters to me-message». I thought for a little while and found in my heart the true answer to the big question. The question can find its way to the very deep of our…