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Bioethics Calendar/Bioetički kalendar 191Th e 14th International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care: Supporting and energizing the movement for health and health care improvement17-20 March 2009, Berlin, GermanyTh e International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care is focused on the importance of the organization of care, as well as the clinician’s responsibility for the care of individual patients. Th is can be obtained by benchmarking, shared decision making, training for patient safety, improving both cost and quality, improvement in primary care, mental health care, open disclosure...Th e Berlin Forum aimed to integrate learning about quality improvement into the learning of a health professional’s core discipline, by providing a forum where prac-titioners, educationists, academics, and leaders could meet and learn from each oth-er through a series of sessions where participants could debate and argue about ideas at the leading edge of safety and quality improvement – on thinking of safety in a diff erent way, on advancing understanding of the evidence for quality improvement activities, on what constitutes leadership for quality improvement...Th e Forum took place over four days, Tuesday 17 to Friday 20 March. Th e fi rst day consisted of fi ve parallel full day mini-courses on »the basics« of various aspects of quality improvement, for participants new to the subject or who wanted a refresher on a particular aspect. On Tuesday afternoon there was an optional introduction to the German health service, followed by the welcome reception for delegates. Th e main program then went on from Wednesday to Friday. Each day opened with a plenary talk to all delegates and then divided up into a series of parallel sessions, some of these organized as half day mini-courses, with a strong emphasis on teach-ing skills and knowledge. Th e last time slot of each day included presentations se-lected from the call for papers, grouped into themed topics. Finally, a fi nal plenary talk was held on the last day, so that all delegates could join together again before departing. Two special programs were also organized: 192JAHRVol. 1No. 12010 – for chief executives of health organizations, and – a specifi c student-teacher program.All together there were: – 4 Plenary Sessions,  – 73 Parallel Sessions, and  – 16 Half day Mini-Courses.Th e International Forum continues to grow in infl uence, and is a key meeting point for healthcare professionals with attendees from over 70 countries. Th e 15th Forum is taking place from 20-23 April 2010, in Nice, France. Th e 2010 theme of Im-proving Quality, Reducing Costs addresses the challenges brought about by global fi nancial pressures. Additional info: www.internationalforum.bmj.comIva Sorta-Bilajac

The 14th International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care: Supporting and energizing the movement for health and health care improvement

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