Safety Is Personal: Partnering with Patients and Families for the Safest Care

This guide and appended tools is a call to action for health leaders, clinicians, and policy makers in taking the necessary steps to ensure patient and family engagement at all levels of healthcare. It provides recommendations to each level of healthcare including patients, families, and the public; leaders of healthcare systems; healthcare clinicians and staff; and healthcare policy makers for advancing patient safety using effective partnerships between these parties.