Staff and Patient Safety is key pattern that should be considered in healthcare setting. It aims to prevent and reduce risks, errors and harm that occur to patients and staff during provision of health care, the occurrence of adverse events due to unsafe care is likely one of the 10 leading causes of death and disability in the world.

Each year, 134 million adverse events occur in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, due to unsafe care, resulting in 2.6 million deaths.

Globally, as many as 4 in 10 patients are harmed in primary and outpatient health care.
Up to 80% of harm is preventable.


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