Becker's Healthcare September 17, 2021
Erica Carbajal

Sept. 17 is World Patient Safety Day — a campaign established by the World Health Organization in 2019 to raise awareness about adverse patient safety events.

Five more notes about the day:

1. About 134 million adverse events occur in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries every year, resulting in 2.6 million deaths, the WHO estimates, prompting the launch of World Patient Safety Day. In high-income countries, it is estimated that 1 in every 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care.

2. Each year, World Patient Safety Day has a different theme to call attention to a priority patient safety area. In 2020, the theme was “Health worker safety: A priority for patient safety.”

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