Primary Care, Burnout, and Patient Safety: Way to Eliminate Avoidable Harm

Yoshito Nishimura

doi:10.3390/ijerph191610112

Primary Care, Burnout, and Patient Safety: Way to Eliminate Avoidable Harm

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 16;19(16):10112. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191610112.

Author

Yoshito Nishimura^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
² Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.

Abstract

Patient safety has been a big theme in the area of global health, as represented by the resolution of the World Health Organization (WHO) on "Global action on patient safety" in 2019 and the recently published "Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Burnout, Professional* / prevention & control
Humans
Patient Safety*
Primary Health Care
World Health Organization

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.