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Patient safety and quality of care in mental health: a world of its own?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Danielle D'Lima ,
Mike J. Crawford ,
Ara Darzi  and
Stephanie Archer
Danielle D'Lima*
Affiliation:
University College London
Mike J. Crawford
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Ara Darzi
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Stephanie Archer
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
*
d.d'[email protected]
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Quality and safety in healthcare, as an academic discipline, has made significant progress over recent decades, and there is now an active and established community of researchers and practitioners. However, work has predominantly focused on physical health, despite broader controversy regarding the attention paid to, and significance attributed to, mental health. Work from both communities is required in order to ensure that quality and safety is actively embedded within mental health research and practice and that the academic discipline of quality and safety accurately represents the scientific knowledge that has been accumulated within the mental health community.

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BJPsych Bulletin , Volume 41 , Issue 5 , October 2017 , pp. 241 - 243
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This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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M.J.C. is the Director of the Centre for Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (CCQI).

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