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- Title
Patient safety: what role can patients play?
- Authors
Coulter, Angela
- Abstract
The author reflects on the role that patients have for their safety. She argues that patients have a key role to play in helping to reach an accurate diagnosis, in deciding about appropriate treatment and in choosing an experienced and safe provider. Suggested actions for patients' active participation include selecting providers carefully, encouraging health professionals to adopt safety-promoting practices and checking to ensure treatment is given as planned.
- Subjects
PATIENT participation; SAFETY; MEDICAL cooperation; PATIENT-professional relations
- Publication
Health Expectations, 2006, Vol 9, Issue 3, p205
- ISSN
1369-6513
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1369-7625.2006.00405.x