Part I. Introduction.- 1. Guidelines and Safety Practices for Improving Patient Safety.- 2. Brief story of a clinical risk manager.- 3. Human Error and Patient Safety.- 4. Looking forward to the future.- 5. Safer care: shaping the future.- 6. Patients for Patient Safety.- 7. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety from the Perspective of Medical Residents.- Part II. Background.- 8. Patient Safety in the World.- 9. Infection Prevention and Control.- 10. The patient journey.- 11. Adverse event investigation and risk assessment.- 12. From theory to real world integration: implementation science and beyond.- Part III.Patient safety in the main clinical specialties.- 13. Intensive care and anesthesiology.- 14. "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" .- 15. Emergency Department Clinical Risk.- 16. Obstetric Safety Patient.- 17. Patient Safety in the main clinical specialties.- 18. Risks in Oncology and Radiation Therapy.- 19. Orthopaedics and Traumatology.-