The Power of Collaboration With Patient Safety Programs Building Safe Passage for Patients, Nurses, and Clinical Staff

Patient safety is a relatively new field, with many opinions and few effectively proven approaches. One factor is clear: optimal patient safety out-comes cannot be achieved in isolation. Although it is well recognized that multidisciplinary collabo-ration in the healthcare setting is necessary to effect patient safety, collaboration with resources external to healthcareVacademia and industry in particularVwill not only aid but also quicken the patient safety efforts. The authors outline a health-care system’s use of all available resources to build a patient safety program. There are reasons why academic and clinical partnerships are important and will be more important for our future: they work! The literatur