Patient Safety in Healthcare: Innovative Models and Management Solutions
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, and Self-care Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Patient safety has evolved from a focus on error reporting to prevention through system redesign. Yet a persistent gap remains between safety science and bedside practice. Healthcare organizations continue to struggle with implementing and sustaining innovations that reliably reduce preventable harm. This Special Issue therefore focuses on organizational and management models that demonstrate measurable improvement in patient safety outcomes.
Healthcare leaders must pursue safety amid limited budgets, workforce shortages, and rising clinical complexity. Clinicians need solutions that reduce risk without adding excessive burden. Researchers must test interventions in ways that show not only effectiveness but also scalable, sustained impact. For this Special Issue, patient safety outcomes refer to quantifiable indicators, such as rates of preventable harm and adverse events, near-miss reporting, medication and diagnostic errors, healthcare-associated infections, falls with injury, pressure injuries, failure to rescue, preventable mortality, or validated composite safety indices used by national or international bodies.
We welcome original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and related manuscript types that develop, evaluate, or synthesize system-level models and management solutions linked to these safety measures. Submissions should clearly define their safety outcomes and present evidence of improvement or robust causal/mediated associations with harm reduction. Work on technology-enabled safety systems, AI and predictive analytics, human factors and systems engineering, high-reliability leadership and governance, implementation and scaling strategies, cost-effectiveness, and equity-focused safety policy is encouraged when tied directly to measurable reductions in preventable harm.
Our goal is to strengthen the evidence base for organizational innovations that reduce adverse events, prevent avoidable patient harm, and improve safety-critical outcomes across diverse clinical settings.
Dr. Robert L. Anders
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- patient safety
- preventable harm
- adverse events
- safety indicators
- systems redesign
- leadership
- safety culture
- human factors
- technology-enabled safety
- high-reliability organizations
- implementation science
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