Patient Safety Events and Announcements

Announcing the 15th Annual NPSF Patient Safety Congress
May 8-10, 2013 | New Orleans, Louisiana

Join us and be part of Patient Safety Solution Evolution

As the only conference dedicated solely to patient safety, NPSF’s annual Congress is a unique opportunity for practitioners, leaders and experts around the world to come together and share their knowledge.

There are many ways to address the issue of patient safety, and Congress participants explore them by attending a variety of seminars, breakouts sessions, workshops, demonstrations and plenaries. Participants also gain the opportunity to network with other professionals passionate about patient safety and share best practices in order to make a direct impact.

Register Online Now

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Rapid response systems and medical emergency teams 2013

8th international conference

13-14 May 2013 * London UK * Royal College of Physicians

Welcome to the return of this international conference for 2013 – now in its 8th year. The conference remains the largest event in its field worldwide and will be held in London, UK for the first time - hosted by the Royal College of Physicians.

An innovative programme covers a comprehensive range of topics including, identification of high-risk patients, recognising and responding to clinical deterioration, clinical communication, organising and implementing rapid response systems, continuing care of high risk patients and much more.

We are now accepting submissions of abstracts to be considered for poster presentation – find out more here.

Who should attend?
The conference is the must-attend event of the year for critical care, emergency and acute care physicians, critical care outreach and medical emergency team staff, paediatric and obstetric staff managing high-risk patients, anaesthesiologists and theatre staff, patient safety, risk and quality improvement specialists, physiotherapists and respiratory therapists, resuscitation officers, psychologists dealing with the psychological consequences of critical illness, nursing and medical directors and hospital managers.

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The Psych Central Conference

The First Annual Psych Central Conference will be held at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center, located in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.

The 2-day conference will highlight mental health, mindfulness, stress-relief, psychology and other self-help topics from a wealth of knowledgeable speakers from around the country. Workshops will be available in multiple tracks throughout both days, along with plenary sessions, keynote speakers and a dinner.

Save the Date!

The conference dates are Monday, June 3, 2013 and Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

Registration will open in January 2013, while the call for presentations will begin in December 2012.

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PharmedOut

Announcing...

PharmedOut's 4th Annual Conference

"Medical Behavior in a Commercial World: Who Is Responsible?"

Please join us June 6-7, 2013 at Georgetown University. Register here!

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SEIPS Short Course

The 2013 SEIPS Short Course - Extended Part I is scheduled for July 15-18, 2013 at the Lowell Center.

The course brochure/registration form and online registration are now available!

Click on registration for more details.

This is a University of Wisconsin-Madison sponsored short course on human factors engineering and patient safety. This short course is designed to provide an understanding of human factors and systems engineering and how this approach to patient safety can improve system performance and safety, prevent harm when error does occur, help systems recover from error and mitigate further harm. In addition to didactic lectures, the course is organized with active participation, allowing for participants to apply HFE concepts and techniques.

The educational activity is designed for all physicians, physician assistants, nurses, information technologists, research scientists, quality improvement specialists, pharmacists, CEOs, middle and upper managers, engineers, risk management professionals, infection control professionals, patient safety officers, and other professionals interested in human factors engineering and patient safety.

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The 6th International Conference on Patient-

and Family-Centered Care:

Partnerships for Quality & Safety

August 6 – August 8, 2014

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Preventing Overdiagnosis

Winding back the harms of too much medicine

The Preventing Overdiagnosis conference will take place on 10-12 September 2013 in the United States, hosted by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in partnership with one of the world’s most respected medical journals, the BMJ, the leading New-York based consumer organisation Consumer Reports, and Bond University.

A call for abstracts was issued in November 2012, the deadline for submission is March 15, with decisions announced in April. A draft program appears here, and the abstract submission form can be downloaded here.

If you are interested in attending or want to receive more information about the conference, please sign up for updates.

http://www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net/

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Edinburgh 2013

http://www.isqua.org/conference/edinburgh-2013