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International Classification for Patient Safety (ICPS)
Purpose/Definition
The purpose of the International Classification for Patient Safety is to enable categorization of patient safety information using standardized sets of concepts with agreed definitions, preferred terms, and the relationships between them based on an explicit domain ontology. It is designed to facilitate the description, comparison, measurement, monitoring, analysis and interpretation of information to improve patient care, and for epidemiological and health policy planning purposes.
The World Alliance for Patient Safety is committed to ensuring the International Classification for Patient Safety is a genuine convergence of international perceptions of the main issues related to patient safety. The ICPS is intended to define, harmonize and group patient safety concepts into an internationally agreed classification in a way that is conducive to learning and improving patient safety across time and boarders. It is further intended that the ICPS be interoperable with existing international classifications.
It should be noted that the International Classification for Patient Safety is not yet a classification. It is a conceptual framework for an international classification which provides a reasonable understanding of the world of patient safety and patient safety concepts to which existing regional and national classifications can relate.
For further info please visit: http://www.who.int/patientsafety/implementation/taxonomy/en/index.html
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