Consumers Advancing Patient Safety - Research Paper Example

The main aim of CAPS is to ensure patient safety and to prevent harm to the patient. It proposes to achieve this through partnership and collaboration between patients and their families, and providers of health care, and by teaching what customers and providers need to know when they interact.

            The resources are Patient Safety, Communication Education, Administration, and general medical information.  The audience intended is primarily the patients and their families, and the health care providers. Patient safety deals with medication safety, infection control, reporting, surgical and anesthesiological safety, and technology issues. Communication education deals with personal communication issues and personal and emotional support. General medical information provides a collection of disease-specific material for the patients and their families and professional health information.

            While patient safety gives much-needed information to the patients and their families about medication safety and infection control, communication education provides information about disclosure and apology. The resources need to be more informative about the long-term safety of drugs used. In “your story”, the feature story could be made more interesting.

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Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (n.d) Retrieved 10 March 2009, from Consumers Advancing Patient Safety.   On this web page, CAPS, an organization for patient safety provides such useful things for a patient as a free brochure, a patient safety workshop, toolkits, and the latest news about patient safety. It provides a platform for the patient to share his/her story. While it gives much-needed information about many things, it needs to give more information about the effects of long-term use of drugs.