Strategies to Promote Patient Safety in Hemodialysis: An Integrative Review.

A way to promote patient safety is to create strategies that can contain the latent failures present in health organizations, especially in highly complexity services, such as hemodialysis units, which, by the characteristics of the treatment, offer potential risks for the occurrence of adverse events to their patients. The aim of this study was to identify strategies in the literature that contribute to the promotion of patient safety in hemodialysis. Eleven articles were identified, comprising 17 strategies to promote patient safety in hemodialysis, divided into three dimensions of care: teaching, assistance, and management. The category with the most strategies listed was management, with audit the most cited strategy in this category. All strategies found are interrelated and can be used together to optimize patient safety.