Dental
Patient Safety
Foundation

The Dental Patient Safety Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization whose only mission is to improve safety and quality of dental care, regardless of specialty, by non-partisan collecting, aggregating and analyzing information about patient safety events (adverse incidents, near misses or unsafe conditions), which can be safely, voluntarily and confidentially reported in the reporting tool.

The DPSF is a listed Patient Safety Organization (P0198) in compliance with the Patient Safety Rule of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, which legally protects and maintains the confidentiality of all disclosures. The Patient Safety Rule was enacted to encourage voluntary reporting of sensitive information without the risk of liability.

The DPSF will swiftly and frequently report back to the dental profession to inform of ways to reduce risk, minimize hazards and improve the quality of care the delivery of dental care.