Patient Safety and Patient-Centred Care in Emergency Medical Services and Adjoining Care Settings: Editorial

This Research Topic on Patient Safety and Patient-Centred Care in Emergency Medical Services and Adjoining Care Settings aims to encompass the already existing and evolving challenges modern emergency medical services (EMS) systems face. As medical, technological, and organizational progress meets demographic changes and staff shortages ensuring patient safety is still one of the biggest tasks for all healthcare systems worldwide (1). Against this background, improving patient safety should not end at the sector boundaries of outpatient or clinical patient care, but should encompass the entire patient journey, including emergency care. There are many possible approaches to this (2). Moreover, we were interested in highlighting emergency medical services challenges from the perspective of decision-makers, policymakers, payers, stakeholders, and system responses. To advance research in patient-centered care and patient safety, we were especially interested in areas with low levels of evidence.