Strengthening the evidence-policy interface for patient safety: enhancing global health through hospital partnerships

Globalization and Health

Didier Pittet²  Edward Kelley¹  Rachel Gooden¹  Joyce D Hightower¹  Paul Rutter¹  Pamela Riley¹  Julie Storr¹  Viva Dadwal¹  Shamsuzzoha B Syed¹ 

[1] African Partnerships for Patient Safety, Patient Safety Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland;Infection Control Programme and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland

关键词: Hospitals;    Africa;    Evidence-based practice;    Policy-making;    Global health;    Patient safety;   

Others  :  805345
DOI  :  10.1186/1744-8603-9-47

 received in 2011-10-21, accepted in 2013-08-02,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Strengthening the evidence-policy interface is a well-recognized health system challenge in both the developed and developing world. Brokerage inherent in hospital-to-hospital partnerships can boost relationships between “evidence” and “policy” communities and move developing countries towards evidence based patient safety policy. In particular, we use the experience of a global hospital partnership programme focused on patient safety in the African Region to explore how hospital partnerships can be instrumental in advancing responsive decision-making, and the translation of patient safety evidence into health policy and planning. A co-developed approach to evidence-policy strengthening with seven components is described, with reflections from early implementation. This rapidly expanding field of enquiry is ripe for shared learning across continents, in keeping with the principles and spirit of health systems development in a globalized world.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Syed et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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