医療の安全・安心を確保するための社会技術の確立

抄録

With the successive reports on adverse events in healthcare, social needs for the assurance of healthcare quality and safety has been increasing. Along this line, healthcare society has initiated various of activities for quality and safety, including joint researches which have been performed through the collaboration of experts from a variety of science. This approach is expected to result in the development of a new science of "healthcare safety and relief", which is significant to establish a sound healthcare social system, This paper makes a generalization of these ten years initiatives from a viewpoint of establishment of social technology for healthcare safety and relief. It also discusses fundamental approach and future plan for establishment of social infrastructure to ensure safety and relief in healthcare.