Scheduled for surgery? You have a key role to play in your safety! Our #project #empowers patients to speak up, ask questions & feel confident before, during & after surgery.
💬 Remember that your voice matters!
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🧩 Why it matters: bridging these perspectives is essential to develop more meaningful and patient-centred Core Outcome Sets and Core Measure Sets, ensuring that what we measure in healthcare is aligned with the lived experiences and priorities of patients.
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• Patients tend to prioritize quality of life, emotional impact, & long-term recovery-related outcomes
• Healthcare professionals focus more on clinical outcomes, technical measures & system constraints
• These differences are driven by knowledge gaps, differing priorities, & safety perceptions /3
In this exploratory qualitative study, we examined why patients and healthcare professionals perceive the importance of perioperative patient safety outcome measures differently.
Key findings:
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📢 New Publication Alert!
We are pleased to share our latest research published in PLOS ONE: www.linkedin.com/company/publ...
“Understanding discrepancies in perceived importance of patient safety measures between patients and healthcare professionals in perioperative care: An exploratory study” 🧵
🎉 New Publication from the SAFEST Project!
We are pleased to share our latest paper published in the International Journal of Public Health:
"Core Measure Set for Patient Safety in Perioperative Care: A Clinical Practice-Oriented Consensus Study"
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The SAFEST team at the University of Tartu and Tartu University Hospital organized a session on "The journey of a patient undergoing surgery - Safety First," which addressed perioperative safety & the journey of a surgical patient from the perspective of the surgeon, anesthesiologist, and patient.
📊 Results coming soon: SAFEST self-evaluation data from the first 10 hospitals indicate strong implementation in Equipment and Blood management patient safety areas. Stay tuned!
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🏥 More than 80 hospitals across 24 countries are now taking part in the SAFEST self-evaluation!
Join the SAFEST initiative today and get access to our upcoming Q&A sessions. Connect with peers to enhance perioperative care and safety.
Learn more and register here: safestsurgery.eu/standalone/p...
📣 Dissemination of the results will follow very soon, so stay tuned for more insights and reflections from the project.
Proud of the #collaboration and the great work by the SAFEST team!
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These initial analyses provide valuable insights into what helps — or hinders — effective learning and implementation across participating #hospitals. Understanding context is key to strengthening learning collaboratives and supporting sustainable improvement in #surgical #safety.
🚀 SAFEST Surgery Project Update 🚨
We’ve completed the first rounds of analysis, focusing on the contextual factors that influence how our learning collaborative functioned in practice.
Season's greetings from the SAFEST consortium!
#PatientSafety #Health
Check out our #latest (... and penultimate) newsletter in our #project journey!
#December
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Their feedback (via QoR-15 & PPE-15) is vital for improving the quality of perioperative care.
A massive thank you to everyone involved!
#SAFESTProject #PROMs #PREMs #QualityImprovement #SurgicalSafety #PatientSafety
🚀 Big milestone for SAFEST!
We've completed PROMs & PREMs recruitment from 1,957+ patients across all SAFETS participating hospitals.
In our latest 'Partner Perspectives' post, read about what SENSAR's been up to in SAFEST this 2025!
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Together, we’re learning what works—and what doesn’t—to make surgery safer for everyone.
#PatientSafety #Surgery #HealthcareQuality #SAFESTInitiative #PerioperativeCare #GlobalHealth
By participating in SAFEST, your hospital will:
✅ Evaluate & strengthen perioperative safety practices.
✅ Receive personalized feedback & expert guidance.
✅ Benchmark performance.
✅ Access training webinars & a user-friendly platform.
✅ Help shape the future of surgical safety.
💡 Want to join this global effort?
If your hospital would like to take part in this unique opportunity to reinforce and improve perioperative safety, contact us at fad@fadq.org to receive all the materials and guidance you need to start your SAFEST journey.
🌍 We’re excited to welcome 70 new hospitals from around the world to the SAFEST Initiative!
Each of these institutions is taking an important step toward strengthening patient safety in perioperative care — and we couldn’t be more excited to have them on board.
The pilot of the open-phase self-evaluation in a Portuguese tertiary hospital was also showcased as a poster.
#PatientSafety #QualityImprovement #SAFESTProject #ISQua2025
Carola Orrego Villagrán, our Principal Investigator from Fundación Avedis Donabedian, presented the SAFEST project in a short oral communication, sharing insights from our collaborative work across European hospitals.
Our partners from Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, represented by Paulo Sousa, delivered the Plenary Keynote: “A New Era for Patient Safety,” highlighting global challenges and opportunities in advancing safer care.
SAFEST was proudly featured at ISQua’s 41st International Conference in São Paulo, Brazil!
💡 He provided an overview of the SAFEST perioperative safety standards and the results of the self-assessment carried out based on these standards at the Tartu University Hospital!
🏥 Prof. Joel Starkopf, Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the University of Tartu, gave a presentation entitled "Patient safety and perioperative care – how far we are from European standards?" at the #BaltAnestIC2025 conference held on 18-20 September!
🧭 Introducing COMPASS: Your Interactive Guide to Safer Surgery: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j34R...
🔗 Explore COMPASS here: compass.esaic.org/perioperativ...
#COMPASS #SurgicalSafety #PatientSafety #HealthcareInnovation #EvidenceBased #PerioperativeCare #MedicalEducation#SAFEST
On 3-4 October 2025, SAK held its annual #conference for auditors and consultants, focusing on #quality and #safety in healthcare. 🌟 Explore how our project’s self-evaluation tool can enrich accreditation and help deliver even safer care! 🚀 #HealthcareQuality #PatientSafety