[To promote knowledge on patient safety: the case of the Biblioteca Breve de Seguridad del Paciente (Brief Patient Safety Library)].

Objective: Within the framework of the Patient Safety Strategy 2015-2020, the Regional Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid developed two lines of action to consolidate the Patient Safety Culture through the dissemination of scientific knowledge in Patient Safety. The main objective was to identify, disseminate and improve access to relevant information on patient safety for patient-citizens, professionals and the organization itself through a pool of resources accessible on the Internet and intranet.

Methods: After an analysis of the tools and communication channels available to disseminate knowledge in patient safety, the references of interest were selected by a group of experts, a consultation tool was developed in a navigable format on the internet and various dissemination actions were carried out to make it known.

[Medication administration errors at an emergency service: knowing to decrease risk].

Objective: TThere is a great potential risk of errors in the emergency services and the studies carried out present heterogeneous results and methodology. The aim was to calculate the prevalence and characteristics, types and consequences for the patient, of medications administration errors in patients who attended the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary hospital, and to propose improvement strategies to prevent them.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of direct observation in the emergency areas of internal medicine and observation of adult patients was conducted in September 2016.