Together, we’re learning what works—and what doesn’t—to make surgery safer for everyone.

#PatientSafety #Surgery #HealthcareQuality #SAFESTInitiative #PerioperativeCare #GlobalHealth

By participating in SAFEST, your hospital will:

✅ Evaluate & strengthen perioperative safety practices.
✅ Receive personalized feedback & expert guidance.
✅ Benchmark performance.
✅ Access training webinars & a user-friendly platform.
✅ Help shape the future of surgical safety.

💡 Want to join this global effort?
If your hospital would like to take part in this unique opportunity to reinforce and improve perioperative safety, contact us at fad@fadq.org to receive all the materials and guidance you need to start your SAFEST journey.

The pilot of the open-phase self-evaluation in a Portuguese tertiary hospital was also showcased as a poster.

#PatientSafety #QualityImprovement #SAFESTProject #ISQua2025

Carola Orrego Villagrán, our Principal Investigator from Fundación Avedis Donabedian, presented the SAFEST project in a short oral communication, sharing insights from our collaborative work across European hospitals.

Our partners from Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, represented by Paulo Sousa, delivered the Plenary Keynote: “A New Era for Patient Safety,” highlighting global challenges and opportunities in advancing safer care.

💡 He provided an overview of the SAFEST perioperative safety standards and the results of the self-assessment carried out based on these standards at the Tartu University Hospital!

@esaic.bsky.social is committed to advancing patient safety and plays a crucial role in SAFEST, offering contributions in clinical expertise and helping to disseminate best practices across its network. Read more about it here:

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🎥 Also hot off the press: SAFEST has released a new video giving you a front-row look at how these standards are being shaped, how hospitals will use the benchmarking tools, and what impact this could have on patient safety.

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What’s SAFEST about? It’s all about standardising care by:

🔹 creating patient-centred safety standards;
🔹 developing a self-evaluation & benchmarking platform for hospitals; and
🔹 piloting implementation to reduce surgical complications.

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Want to learn more about how SAFEST is being implemented? Read the full article in the ESAIC newsletter:

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#SafetyInSurgery #SAFESTsurgery #Compass #HealthcareQuality #EUResearch

🙏 A huge thanks to all those working behind the scenes – researchers, hospitals, clinicians – whose efforts will help make surgical care safer, consistent & evidence-based across Europe.