Emergency services have a high potential risk for adverse events. The working conditions are sometimes conducive to making mistakes. There are few studies that have shown improvements in specific aspects of patient safety in the emergency department, but none in the overall incidence. The general objective is to improve patient safety in our emergency services by implementing improvement actions. This is a quasi-experimental study carried out in 8 hospital emergency services. The methodology is mainly based on the EVADUR and ENEAS studies. We collect data through a face-to-face interview during their stay in the Emergency Department and carry out a telephone review 1 week later. We then inform the departments of the results and initiate improvement activities. 14 improvement measures were implemented in the different emergency services. Two years later, a reassessment was carried out using the same methodology. An initial sample of 382 cases was collected. After the improvement actions, data from 267 patients were collected. No significant differences were found between the 2 groups in terms of age, sex, triage level, hospital, care shift, average length of stay and discharge destination. In the initial evaluation, at least 1 incidence was detected in 46 patients (12.04%), and in the reevaluation, 16 patients with an incident (5.99%) were detected. The differences were statistically significant (p<0.01). The emergency services studied were able to reduce the number of patient safety incidents.
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