A10 Patient safety for children: not just small adults

A10 Patient safety for children: not just small adults

Format: Largely didactic but with much audience interaction

Quality improvement and patient safety initiatives for children require a different focus from those for adults. We will share approaches, including the role of parents, which have been used in major paediatric centres around the world to improve quality and safety of healthcare for children.

After this session you will be able to:

• Apply a framework for examining the unique challenges for patient safety inherent in paediatric health care and consider how this can be applied to quality improvement in general
• Review current measurement strategies and evidence for adverse events in paediatrics and child health using trigger tools
• Learn approaches to improving paediatric patient care that can be adapted locally such as medical response teems and medication safety
• Engage parents as protectors (a lesson that can be passed to adult hospitals)

Matt Scanlon, MD, Associate Professor of Paediatrics-Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, USA; Karen Dunn, MD, Paediatrician, Clinical Quality and Safety Unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Barb Brady-Fryer, RN, PhD, Director, Pediatric Critical Care and Cardiology, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Canada; Peter Lachman, Paediatrician, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK