Description
Patient safety measures often focus on avoiding harm to patients, but patients do not all define or experience safety in the same way. This webinar explores clinical and institutional definitions of patient safety and describes patient definitions of safety and trust collected from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded Postnatal Patient Safety Learning Lab. The webinar will discuss the connection between safety, trust, and patient health behaviors, and introduce two models for understanding positive safety and information marginalization in healthcare.
Speaker Information
Amelia N. Gibson, MLIS, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and co-director of the MLIS program at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland and College Park. Dr. Gibson studies information marginalization, trust, and safety online, and in health and learning institutions (libraries and education), with a special focus on maternal health equity and local community access to information. Her research has received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The American Heart Association, the American Library Association, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss how information and communication define how patient safety is perceived and its impact on care quality.
- Identify elements of the patient-defined safety model.