EGMS Quality & Patient Safety Crossword Challenge 2026

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Across
  1. 2. The annual global event celebrated every 17 September. (4-letter acronym)
  2. 3. World Patient Safety Day is observed in which month each year?
  3. 5. The process of continuously making services more effective and safer.
  4. 6. The first action staff should take before and after patient contact.
  5. 7. The primary objective of patient safety is to prevent patient __________.
  6. 9. Information about patients should remain private and __________.
  7. 11. An event that could have caused harm but did not reach the patient.
  8. 13. The official WHO World Patient Safety Day 2026 slogan is "Safe Care for _____!"
  9. 14. The process used to understand why an incident occurred and prevent recurrence.
  10. 15. The process of checking the correct patient, correct treatment, and correct procedure before care.
Down
  1. 1. Verifying two identifiers before providing care supports patient __________.
  2. 3. The opposite of risk in healthcare quality management.
  3. 4. Safe use of medicines to reduce harm to patients.
  4. 6. A condition or practice that has the potential to cause harm.
  5. 8. A process that reviews compliance against standards and requirements.
  6. 10. A widely used communication tool that helps ensure safe handovers of patient information.
  7. 12. Unintended events involving patients should be reported as __________.