Khazar University is one of the partners in a COST project called “The European Researchers’ Network Working on Second Victims”. The project’s objectives are to encourage discussion of the meaning of the fourth criterion (Quadruple Aim) and its implications for healthcare organizations; to develop further the theoretical conceptualization of the Second Victims (SV) phenomenon and developing a common understanding of its definition; to raise awareness of the impact of Adverse Event (AE) on healthcare professionals and their consequences in personal, professional, social, legal, economic, and labor terms. The project also pursues objectives to achieve changes in rules and regulations facilitating discussion of the legal, ethical, and organizational gaps; to introduce new metrics on the system level to improve health workforce policy and to learn to tackle with the consequences of SV phenomenon.

The project is led by FISABIO - Alicante-Sant Joan Healthcare District, Spain. The project‘s members come from countries like Spain, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Romania, United States, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Japan.