Patient safety is a global challenge, with preventable harm impacting patient outcomes, healthcare costs, and public trust. As healthcare systems grow more complex, integrating evidence-based interventions, technology, and human factors is essential to reducing risks. This special issue seeks research that advances patient safety through innovative strategies, implementation science, and policy improvements.

Key Themes

We invite you to submit manuscripts aligned with the special issue goals, including original research articles, systematic reviews, and implementation studies on topics including, but not limited to:

• - Risk management: Including surveillance, early detection and predictive models for patient safety
• - Evaluating safety interventions: Effectiveness of evidence-based strategies in different healthcare settings
• - Technology and innovation: AI, digital health, smart technologies to enhance safety
• - Communication, teamwork, culture: Strategies to improve collaboration, leadership, reporting systems
• - Addressing disparities: Social determinants of safety, equitable access to care, differences in outcomes
• - Patient and family engagement: Shared decision-making, patient-centered safety approaches, education initiatives
• - Human factors in safety: Impact of workload, fatigue, system design on patient outcomes
• - Monitoring, evaluation, policy: Measuring, sustaining, scaling safety improvements globally

Who should submit?

This special issue welcomes contributions from researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and healthcare leaders working to enhance patient safety. We encourage interdisciplinary studies bridging research and practice across diverse healthcare settings.

Expected impact

By redefining patient safety through innovative research and implementation, this special issue aims to drive effective, scalable solutions that ensure safer healthcare systems worldwide.