Basu Lopa, Pronovost Peter, Molello Nancy Edwards, Syed Shamsuzzoha B, Wu Albert W
World Health Organization Service Delivery & Safety Department, 750 East Pratt Street, 15th floor, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality, 750 East Pratt Street, 15th floor, Baltimore, MD, 21202, USA.
Global Health. 2017 Aug 22;13(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12992-017-0289-6.
While it is clear that hospitals in developing countries need to improve quality of health services and improve patient safety, hospitals in high resource countries need to do the same. Most often the focus on improvement through institutional health partnerships involves hospital teams from high resource settings attempting to aid and teach hospital staff in low resource settings, particularly in Africa. However these efforts to provide assistance may be more satisfying and sustainable if we understand that partnership learning is bi-directional whereby hospital teams from high resource settings also benefit. One particular partnership-based model that demonstrates this benefit to high resource partners is the World Health Organization African Partnerships for Patient Safety (APPS). Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality (AI) through the APPS model has co-created twinning partnerships with hospitals in Uganda, South Sudan & Liberia. This commentary aims to deconstruct specific learnings that have benefited the Johns Hopkins AI community through the APPS partnership.
虽然很明显发展中国家的医院需要提高卫生服务质量并改善患者安全，但资源丰富国家的医院也需要这样做。通常，通过机构卫生伙伴关系进行改进的重点是资源丰富地区的医院团队试图帮助和教导资源匮乏地区的医院工作人员，特别是在非洲。然而，如果我们认识到伙伴关系学习是双向的，即资源丰富地区的医院团队也能从中受益，那么这些提供援助的努力可能会更令人满意且可持续。世界卫生组织非洲患者安全伙伴关系（APPS）就是一个向资源丰富的伙伴展示这种益处的基于伙伴关系的特定模式。约翰霍普金斯医学院阿姆斯特朗患者安全与质量研究所（AI）通过APPS模式与乌干达、南苏丹和利比里亚的医院共同建立了结对伙伴关系。本评论旨在剖析通过APPS伙伴关系使约翰霍普金斯AI社区受益的具体经验教训。
