Programme & plenary presentations
The plenary presentations are all available through clicking the links in the programme below.
The programme was designed to flow through the research process across the three days.
The first day saw plenary presentations and a ‘mix-it' session allowing delegates to understand the different perspectives and issues involved in European patient safety research.
The research track of day two examined the existing research base and developed priorities for future European research on patient safety through thematic workshops. The policy track of day two discussed issues around building patient safety research infrastructure and capacities.
The final day summarised and built upon the outcomes from day two. Panellists and plenary presentations discussed the issues in taking this European research agenda forward.
Download the final programme [pdf]
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| Monday 24 September |
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| Registration & lunch |
Introduction from Conference Chair  [88KB] David Bates External Lead Research, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and Harvard University , USA |
| Welcome [79KB] Francisco George General Directorate of Health, Portugal |
| Welcome Alan Maryon-Davis President, Faculty of Public Health, UK |
| How can research support patient safety? Sir Liam Donaldson Chair, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety Chief Medical Officer for England |
| Refreshments |
| What is the patient safety research agenda? What will this conference bring you - and what will you bring to it? [ 460KB] David Bates External Lead Research, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and Harvard University , USA |
| Mix it session Facilitator: Laurie McMahon Advisor on Health Policy and Management, UK |
| Close & Conference Reception |
| Tuesday 25 September 2007 | |||
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| Historical overview and looking forward [ 1.34MB] Rhona Flin Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK |
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| Research approaches to patient safety [ 1.74MB] Pedro Saturno Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, University of Murcia, Spain |
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Research Agenda Track : Parallel Workshops Session 1 See Workshop presentations & reviews for further details |
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| REPORTING | What value are national reporting systems? Tanya Huehns Head of Research & Development, National Patient Safety Agency, UK |
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| INDICATORS | Can indicators of hospital clinical outcomes demonstrate safety? Paul Bartels Medical Director, The Danish National Indicator Project, Denmark |
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| CULTURE | What role for safety cultures? Cordula Wagner Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research Department of Social Medicine, VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
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| MEDICATION | What are effective methods to ensure accurate medication? Daniel Grandt Professor of Medicine, Clinical Center Saarbruecken, Germany |
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| PATIENT ROLE | What roles for the patient in patient safety research? Jill Hall Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK |
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| REGULATION / ACCREDITATION | What's best in personal accreditation and remediation? Margarida França Vice President, National Institute for Emergency Medicine , Portugal |
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| INVESTIGATIONS | Root cause analysis: Is it the answer? Dianne Parker Professor of Applied Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK |
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Research Policy Track |
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| Research Commissiong: Building infrastructure and capacity Chair: Niek Klazinga Professor of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Health Care Quality Indicator Programme, OECD Panellists: Laurent Degos, Chair, Board of Directors, Haute Autorité de Santé, France [149KB];
Enrique Garcia Terol,
Subdirector General, Department for Quality, Spanish Agency for Quality, Spain; Tracey Cooper,
Chief Executive, Health Information & Quality Authority, Ireland; Bernard Merkel,
Head of the Health Strategy Unit, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, European Commission, Belgium [87KB] |
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Research Agenda Track: Parallel Workshops Session 2 See Workshop presentations & reviews for further details |
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| HUMAN | Understanding human action in preventing or causing adverse events René Amalberti Vice Chief Executive Officer, IMASSA, Resource Specialist Patient Safety, Haute Autorité de Santé, France |
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| EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS | Effectiveness and sustainability interventions to improve patient safety: What do we know and how can we know more? John Øvretveit Director of Research, Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
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| INFECTIONS | Can we control hospital infections? Hervé Richet Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université of the Mediterranean, France |
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| INCIDENCE | How to estimate levels of harm in data poor environments Sisse Olsen Clinical Research Fellow, Clinical Safety Research Unit , Imperial College London, UK |
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| TAXONOMIES | How to ensure relevance across countries and practices? Tjerk van der Schaaf Associate Professor, Leiden University Medical Centre, and Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands |
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| TRAINING | What is effective training for patient safety researchers? Peter Norton Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada |
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Research Policy Track : Interactive Discussion |
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| Research Commissioning: Developing capacity and partnerships [30KB] Chair: Vin McLoughlin Director of Programmes and Policy, Health Foundation, UK Panellists: Günther Jonitz, Chair, German Coalition for Patient Safety, Germany; John-Paul Vader, President, European Public Health Association, Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Basia Kutryba, President of European Society for Quality in Healthcare Senior Adviser, National Centre for Quality Assessment in Health Care, Poland; Roxana Radulescu, Policy Officer, European Patients' Forum, Belgium |
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| Lunch / Poster viewing and voting | |||
| Networking for Patient Safety:
Are European Research Networks effective in facilitating research on patient safety? Issues and opportunities. Chair: Christian Thomeczek Managing Director, Agency Quality in Medicine, Germany Contributors: John Øvretveit, QIRN; Laurent Degos, EUNetPaS; Benno van Beek, SimPatIE; Bernard Merkel, European Commission |
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| Networking for Patient Safety: Working in developing and transitional countries: challenges and opportunities to effective collaboration with European networks [88KB] Chairs: Carlos Aibar, Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Philippe Michel, Director, Evaluation Health Strategies, Haute Autorité de Santé, France Contributors: Amina Sahel, Head of Ambulant Services, Ministry of Health, Morocco; Sisse Olsen, Clinical Research Fellow, Clinical Safety Research Unit , Imperial College London; Astolfo León Franco, Patient Safety Officer, Centro Medico Imbanaco, Colombia; William Macharia, Chair, Department of Paediatrics, University Aga Khan, Kenya. |
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| Parallel session A - discussion | |||
| Which steps European networks and European researchers would need to undertake to fostering networking for Patient Safety Research in Europe? | |||
| Parallel session B - discussion | |||
| Learning from current research experience in developing and transitional countries. [731KB] |
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| Refreshments; Research networking groups discussions continued; Poster viewing and voting; Facilitation meetings | |||
| Close of Day 2 & Conference Dinner | |||
| Wednesday 26 September 2007 |
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| Patient safety in Denmark: What are the challenges? [797 KB] Beth Lilja Pedersen Director, Danish Society for Patient Safety |
| Synthesis of outcomes from Day 1 and 2 [112 KB] Chairs: Kevin McCarthy, Coordinator for Public Health Research, DG Research and Technology Development, European Commission; Itziar Larizgoitia Jauregui, Research Lead, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety The discussion summarised and reviewed the key outcomes from Day 1 and 2, including: - Research priorities from workshops - Recommendations for research commissioning and capacity building; - Recommendations to foster networking for Patient Safety in Europe and beyond. |
| Refreshments |
| The way forward Chairs: David Bates, External Lead Research, WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety and Harvard University , USA; Rod Griffiths, Immediate Past President, Faculty of Public Health, UK Discussants: Philippe Michel, Director, Evaluation of Health Strategies, Haute Autorité de Santé, France [64 KB] ; Antoniya Parvanova,
Member of Parliament, National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria; Silvana Simi,
Patients for Patient Safety Champion, Italy; Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development, Department of Health, England; Günther Jonitz,
Chair, German Coalition for Patient Safety, Germany |
| Health research in the European Commission Octavi Quintana Trias Director for Health Research, DG Research and Technology Development, European Commisson |
| Closing comments, lunch & departure |
