HLTH5600 (Introduction to Patient Safety) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Introduces patient safety science, which is a growing specialty in healthcare, driven by research and reporting efforts that demonstrate unacceptable levels of patient harm in care delivery. Provides a comprehensive overview of the tools and knowledge necessary for healthcare clinicians, administrators, and leaders to create safer healthcare systems. Explores the major themes of patient safety science and the concepts utilized in designing safer healthcare systems and mechanisms for healthcare delivery. Focuses on the history of patient safety, political and regulatory drivers and their impact on patient safety, the importance of robust data capture in recognizing risks, and the inherent challenges of informatics and technology for patient safety. Applying these concepts guides design of safer healthcare.
Data updated October 2026.