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World Patient Safety Day
Originally published 2022-08-25
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World Patient Safety Day
Medication Without Harm
Learn more about World Patient Safety Day!
Mr. Ying-Tsun Sam Chen
What is World Patient Safety Day?
World Patient Safety Day is recognized globally every year on September 17 and was established in 2019 by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly.
World Patient Safety Day calls for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety.
The Day brings together patients, families, caregivers, communities, health workers, health care leaders and policy-makers to show their commitment to patient safety.
134 Million
A number of annual adverse events in LMICs.
25%
of patients experience complications after surgeries.
2019
World Patient Safety Day was established in 2019 by WHO.
Why is this date important to us?
Cyberpatient continues to support and dedicate time and resources to help promote patient safety.
We aim to help raise awareness of the importance of better and safer patient care by supporting students and professionals worldwide with innovative health education tools and making scientific content available to all.
Watch last year’s WPSD Conference
20th Century
Throughout the 20th Century, many studies and initiatives took place around the world to bring light to the topic of Patient Safety.
2000
Patient safety becomes a more widespread talking point, vastly due to the popular publication “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” a report by the Institute of Medicine, published in 2000 and considered the foundation of the patient safety movement.
2009
Momentum also motivates the establishment of international classification of patient safety and the Surgical Safety Checklist by the World Health Organization.
2019
World Patient Safety Day (WSPD) is created in 2019 by the seventy-second World Health Assembly through the adoption by 172 Member States of the resolution “Global action on patient safety.”
2022 Present Day
The focus of WSPD this year is ‘Medication Safety”.
CyberPatient hosts a virtual conference with international experts in support of WSPD.