Abstract
Using a modified Delphi exercise, Aziz Sheikh and colleagues identify research priorities for patient safety research in primary care contexts. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Highlights
Much less is known about the frequency of patient safety incidents and preventability of harm in primary care, in low- and middle-income countries (Box 1)
This is of concern as, in many parts of the world, primary care-based services provide the first point of contact with health systems and often play a key role in coordinating more specialist care provision [5,6,7,8]
N The sources of patient safety incidents requiring further study across all economic settings that were identified were communication between health care professionals and with patients, teamwork within the health care team, laboratory and diagnostic imaging investigations, issues relating to data management, transitions between different care settings, and chart/patient record completeness
Summary
Global Research Priorities to Better Understand the Burden of Iatrogenic Harm in Primary Care: An International Delphi Exercise.
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