Patient Safety

Abstract

Patient safety has become one of the most important issues in healthcare. Clearly and desirably, a patient in need of healthcare should not, as a result of such care, suffer harm that is clearly unnecessary. It is in this context, and starting from the alert for this problem, that the concept of patient safety emerges and, around it, a whole body of knowledge is carved, and today it is a subject with a vertiginous development. The articles published involving this theme are numerous, and increasingly, there are clear paths for what should and what should not be done. This chapter intends to address this theme from the begging of the concept to the importance of its implementation as a subject integrated in radiography curriculum at the initial formation level. It is also intended to provide ways to increase patient safety in imaging departments that must start as a cultural issue at the degree level, being integrated by students in the perspective that they will become the future professionals.