Author:

• Filipe Morais Figueiredo - Figueiredo, F.M - <morais_ff@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7782-8808

Co-author(s):

• Ana Maria Porcel Gálvez - Gálvez, AMP - <aporcel@us.es>
• Eugenia Gil Garcia - Garcia, EG - <egil@us.es>
• Margarida Eiras - Eiras, M - <margarida.eiras@estesl.ipl.pt>

Abstract:

Purpose: Identify strategies used on patients’ participation on patient safety at hospital and ambulatory environments.
Methods: Systematic literature review, following PRISMA model, using Scopus, WOS and Medline for data collection. The search was limited to studies carried out between January 2001 and July 2016, written in Portuguese, English or Spanish. Observational, descriptive, qualitative or epidemiologic studies were included if they described a development/appliance methodology using at least one patient safety improvement strategy. Studies’ methodological quality was assessed using Cochrane’s tool. In order to analysing the results a thematic analyses was performed.
Results: On the primary searching, 11593 studies were found. After title, abstract analysis and exclusion criteria appliance, 19 studies were ed. On these studies were identified patient safety strategies that promoted patients’ active participation on patient safety and information request strategies.
Conclusions: We found vast panoply of strategies promoting patient participation on patient safety, with concrete implementation methods, as well as distinct purposes for their use.

Keywords:

patient safety; patient participation; safety management

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