University hospital UZ Leuven is the first hospital in Belgium that has received the international recognized JCI accreditation. Joint Commission International (JCI) is an organization that determines international norms, the so called JCI standards, in the field of quality of health care and patient safety. If inspection by JCI proves that the quality system of the health care organization meets their high standards, JCI rewards this with a hospital wide accreditation.

To help physicians optimize the quality and safety of patient care, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a report focused on these important health care issues.  A guide to patient safety organizations (PSOs) is being offered free online to all physicians to help them participate in PSOs, a way for physicians to voluntarily report and learn from adverse safety events. 

The Portuguese Hospital Centre of Porto chooses the Clinical Risk Management System (CRMS) of The Patient Safety Company (TPSC) to register and analyze (near) incidents in the future. The hospital group established a partnership with Antares Consulting and The Patient Safety Company to implement the CRMS.

In Dutch hospitals every year between 1,4 and 2,7 percent of the patients dies. This is shown by raw mortality rates of 2009 that have been made public by the Dutch Hospital Association (NVZ) and the Dutch Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU).