Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Patient Safety Quality Healthcare

Patient safety and quality healthcare are interlinked domains of health systems research concerned with preventing harm to patients and ensuring that care is effective, timely, equitable and person-centred. Patient safety addresses the avoidance of preventable adverse events, medication and treatment errors, and hea…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 68× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2641-4538 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Patient safety and quality healthcare are interlinked domains of health systems research concerned with preventing harm to patients and ensuring that care is effective, timely, equitable and person-centred. Patient safety addresses the avoidance of preventable adverse events, medication and treatment errors, and healthcare-associated infection, while quality improvement applies structured methods to raise standards of structure, process and outcome, often framed through models such as the Donabedian structure-process-outcome approach. The field integrates public health, health-services research, clinical governance and implementation science, examining how organisational design, staffing, training and risk management shape population health outcomes. Research in this area includes evaluation of quality-improvement strategies in private healthcare facilities using a Donabedian-based approach; high reliability in healthcare and evidence-based commentary; health-practitioner burnout and its safety implications; risk management of drug-therapy administration in hospitals; knowledge, attitudes and practices toward infection prevention and control among healthcare workers; biomedical waste management among health personnel; phenomenological and qualitative interview methodology in healthcare research; and the integration of traditional maternal and child healthcare with national health systems. Further work addresses organisational design aligned with values to improve outcomes, health-equity disparities, and comparative treatment efficiency within national health systems. Across these contributions the field advances safer, higher-quality care through measurement, infection control, workforce wellbeing, risk management and the systematic evaluation of health-service delivery.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 68 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Public Health International (ISSN 2641-4538).

Journal editorial board
Javad Javan-Noughabi · United Kingdom Evelyn O Talbott · United States Zainab Taha · United Arab Emirates

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