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Patient Safety - Our Responsibility
- By Dr. Ajibike Fadekemi Oyewunmi
- Published July 14, 2009
- Patient Safety
Patient Safety in healthcare is about Identifying what works –
effective practice, Ensuring that the patient gets it ‐ appropriate use
and Delivering care flawlessly – no errors. Further more, there should
be no needless deaths, no needless delays, no waste, no needless pain
or suffering and no helplessness.
What are Health care Errors? They include Failure to diagnose or incorrect diagnosis, Failure to provide adequate observation, Failure to utilize or act on diagnostic test, Use of inappropriate or outmoded diagnostic test, or procedure, Failure to provide follow‐up, Medication error or adverse drug event, Wrong‐site surgery; surgical error, Transfusion error.
Key issues in Patient Safety requires responsibility for leadership to create environment that encourages error identification and remedial steps to reduce risk of future recurrences, and minimizes individual blame or retribution for the involved staff and for the reporter, Organizational engagement in proactive systems analysis as an error revention strategy.
What are Health care Errors? They include Failure to diagnose or incorrect diagnosis, Failure to provide adequate observation, Failure to utilize or act on diagnostic test, Use of inappropriate or outmoded diagnostic test, or procedure, Failure to provide follow‐up, Medication error or adverse drug event, Wrong‐site surgery; surgical error, Transfusion error.
Key issues in Patient Safety requires responsibility for leadership to create environment that encourages error identification and remedial steps to reduce risk of future recurrences, and minimizes individual blame or retribution for the involved staff and for the reporter, Organizational engagement in proactive systems analysis as an error revention strategy.
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said this on 03 Sep 2011 4:47:17 PM CDT
The receivers of care,givers of the care,the process of the care itself should be properly thought out,as all these could harbour possible/potential error traps
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