Patient safety in marginalised groups: a narrative scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Marginalised groups ('populations outside of mainstream society') experience severe health inequities, as well as increased risk of experiencing patient safety incidents. To date however no review exists to identify, map and analyse the literature in this area in order to understand 1) which marginalised groups have been studied in terms of patient safety research, 2) what the particular patient safety issues are for such groups and 3) what contributes to or is associated with these safety issues arising.

Methods

Scoping review. Systematic searches were performed across six electronic databases in September 2019. The time frame for searches of the respective databases was from the year 2000 until present day.

Results

The searches yielded 3346 articles, and

SUBMITTER: Cheraghi-Sohi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7014732 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature