Engaging patients as safety partners : some considerations for ensuring a culturally and linguistically appropriate approach Johnstone, Megan-Jane and Kanitsaki, Olga 2009, Engaging patients as safety partners : some considerations for ensuring a culturally and linguistically appropriate approach, Health policy, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.08.007. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Engaging patients as safety partners : some considerations for ensuring a culturally and linguistically appropriate approach Author(s) Johnstone, Megan-Jane orcid.org/0000-0001-5729-5848 Kanitsaki, Olga Journal name Health policy Volume number 90 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 7 Total pages 7 Publisher Elsevier Ireland Place of publication Limerick, Ireland Publication date 2009-04 ISSN 0168-8510 1872-6054 Keyword(s) patient safety cross-cultural issues migrant populations patient-provider communication shared decision-making Summary Engaging patients as ‘safety partners’ with health service providers to help identify and rectify preventable adverse events in health care is being increasingly accepted in the USA, Australia, and elsewhere as a promising strategy to improve patient safety outcomes. The implications of this trend for patients and families of minority cultural and language backgrounds have not, however, been comprehensively considered. In this article, attention is given to briefly exploring the notion of patient participation in health care and the problematic transposition of the concept into patient safety discourse. The importance of recognising and responding to the critical relationship between culture, language and patient safety outcomes, and the possible benefits and risks of engaging patients of minority ethnic backgrounds in safety partnership programs are explored. It is suggested that if patient safety engagement/partnership programs are to perform well in cross-cultural health care contexts, they need to be supported by research evidence and appropriately informed by the perspectives and experiences of patients and families/nominated carers from minority cultural and language backgrounds. They also need to be appropriately supported by culturally competent policies and practices across the entire health care system. The importance of robust internationally comparative research on this issue is highlighted. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.08.007 Field of Research 111708 Health and Community Services HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal HERDC collection year 2008 Copyright notice ©2008, Elsevier Ireland Ltd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017377 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:52:40 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2009, 14:14:58 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2009, 14:21:09 EST Thu, 10 Sep 2009, 14:22:29 EST Tue, 15 Sep 2009, 14:09:33 EST Tue, 30 Mar 2010, 07:49:10 EST Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:43:37 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 11:47:36 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:06:02 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 41 times in TR Web of Science Cited 45 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 845 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:52:40 EST