Building capacity for quality and safety in critical care: A roundtable discussion from the second international patient safety conference in April 9-11, 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Main Authors: Yaseen M Arabi, Saadi Taher, Sean M Berenholtz, Ahmed Alamry, Ra′ed Hijazi, Abdulaleem Alatassi, Abdellatif M Marini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2013-01-01
• Series: Annals of Thoracic Medicine
• Subjects: Building capacity; critical care; safety culture; sepsis; simulation
• Online Access: http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/article.asp?issn=1817-1737;year=2013;volume=8;issue=4;spage=183;epage=185;aulast=Arabi
• ISSN: 1817-1737; 1998-3557

This paper summarizes the roundtable discussion from the Second International Patient Safety Conference held in April 9-11, 2013, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The objectives of the roundtable discussion were to: (1) review the conceptual framework for building capacity in quality and safety in critical care. (2) examine examples of leading international experiences in building capacity. (3) review the experience in Saudi Arabia in this area. (4) discuss the role of building capacity in simulation for patient safety in critical care and (5) review the experience in building capacity in an ongoing improvement project for severe sepsis and septic shock.