Everything I know about safety

Anne Lyren, M.D., MSc, from the Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety National Network, discusses harm reduction in key areas and critical lessons learned in accelerating improvement at Children's.

Keeping patients safe is an ethical obligation of health care providers and institutions, and ensuring that employees and staff are safe is a fundamental part of this effort. The Children’s Hospitals’ Solutions for Patient Safety National Network is a collaborative of over 130 children’s hospitals that has existed since 2012. Besides demonstrating significant harm reduction in several important areas, the network has learned critical lessons about how to accelerate improvement.