Boletín de Noviembre 2007 (Vol. 1, nº. 9) 
Newsletter November 2007 (Vol. 1, nº. 9) 
Newsletter \ Newsletter Vol. 1, nº. 9 (Thursday, 15 de November, 2007)Highlights:
Papers presented by healthcare professionals from the Spanish NHS and from Latin America on Patient Safety Research. Shaping the European agenda (Oporto, September 2007).
Health Ministry funds Medication-Related Events Reporting Program portal (ISMP-Spain - Spanish Institute for Safe Medication Practices).
Spanish NHS Quality Agency takes part in Conference on “Raising Patient Safety Awareness Among Nursing Staff” (Madrid, 13 November 2007).
Ministry of Health, through Spanish NHS Quality Agency, to host IIIrd International Conference on Patient Safety (Madrid, 13 & 14 December 2007). Registration now open.
Spanish NHS Quality Agency organizes “Scientific Conference on Quality and Scientific Evidence in Decision-Making: Guiasalud” to be held in December 2007 in Madrid.
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News:
REAP scholarships for Primary Care research (REAP, October 2007)
Campaign against breast cancer (Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer - AECC, October 2007).
Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs promotes accreditation of teaching units in areas of medical specialization with most demand (MSC, 7/11/2007).
Spanish NHS Quality Programme honoured by Spanish Quality Association (MSC, 8/11/2007).
Message World Diabetes Day (Federación de Diabéticos Españoles, 14/11/2007).
At October an Auditing Course was held in Madrid, funded by the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs. This completes the training required for auditors linked to the Quality Agency’s Audit Programme. The photograph depicts those taking part in the course.
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Events:
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XIth International Nursing Conference (Madrid, 14-16 November).
- Ist Ceuta Clinical Patient Safety Conference (Ceuta, 19 November).
- Measuring Health and Disability in Europe (MHADIE) (Milán, 28-30 noviembre).
- Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety 2008 (Strasbourg, junio 2008).
- Events in in Spain and abroad in 2007
(last updated: 21 May 2007).
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Recommended reading:
- "Patient Safety: a national priority for the Spanish National Health System". In: ESQH. New Competencies for Healthcare Systems (Barcelona, 20 octubre 2007).
- "How reliable is Google for patient safety information searches?". In: XII Jornadas Nacionales de Información y Documentación en Ciencias de la Salud (Zaragoza, 24-26 octubre 2007).
- Report on results of Web-Based Modified Delphi Survey of International Classification for Patient Safety Overview (WHO, June 2008).
- Is Hospital Patient Care Becoming Safer? A Conversation With Lucian Leape. Health Aff (Millwood). 2007 Nov-Dec;26(6):w687-96.
- Patient safety: helping medical students understand error in healthcare. Quality and Safety in Health Care 2007;16:256-259.
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Safer care for acutely ill patients (NHS. National Patient Safety Agency).
- Who Should Protect the Public? The Supreme Court and Medical Device Regulation. NEJM. 2007;357:1680-1681.
- Guilty, Afraid, and Alone — Struggling with Medical Error. NEJM. 2007;357:1682-1683.
- Identifying the special needs of children with Type 1 diabetes in the school setting. An overview of parents' perceptions. Diabet Med. 2007 Oct;24(10):1073-9.
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