Table 1

Major patient safety topics

Topic #	Quality domain	Patient safety topic
1	Structure	Organisational determinants and latent failures
2	Structure	Structural accountability: the use of accreditation and regulation to advance patient safety
3	Structure	Safety culture
4	Structure	Inadequate training and education, manpower issues
5	Structure	Stress and fatigue
6	Structure	Production pressures
7	Structure	Lack of appropriate knowledge and availability of knowledge, transfer of knowledge
8	Structure	Devices, procedures without human factors engineering
9	Process	Errors in process of care through misdiagnosis
10	Process	Errors in the process of care through poor test follow-up
11	Process	Errors in the structure and process of care: counterfeit and substandard drugs
12	Process	Measures of patient safety
13	Process	Errors in process: unsafe injection practices
14	Outcomes	Adverse events and injuries due to medical devices
15	Outcomes	Adverse events due to medications
16	Outcomes	Adverse events: injury to patients due to surgical errors
17	Outcomes	Adverse events due to healthcare associated infections
18	Outcomes	Adverse events due to unsafe blood products
19	Outcomes	Patient safety among pregnant women and newborns
20	Outcomes	Patient safety concerns among older adults
21	Outcomes	Adverse events due to falls in the hospital
22	Outcomes	Injury due to pressure sores and decubitus ulcers
23	Outcomes	How to bring the patients' voices into the patient safety agenda