Patient Safety - Medical Error, Patient Safety Organization, Medical Prescription, Patient Safety and Nursing, Health Information Technology (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Medical error, Patient safety organization, Medical prescription, Patient safety and nursing, Health information technology, MSM blood donor controversy, Adverse effect, Health literacy, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, Home automation for the elderly and disabled, Clinical peer review, ASA physical status classification system, Medical harm, The Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology, Peter Pronovost, National Patient Safety Foundation, Quaternary prevention, Fall prevention, July effect, Quantros, Fatal Care: Survive in the U.S. Health System, National Patient Safety Agency, Bar Code Medication Administration, Goldman index. Excerpt: Patient safety is a new healthcare discipline that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse healthcare events. The frequency and magnitude of avoidable adverse patient events was not well known until the 1990s, when multiple countries reported staggering numbers of patients harmed and killed by medical errors. Recognizing that healthcare errors impact 1 in every 10 patients around the world, the World Health Organization calls patient safety an endemic concern. Indeed, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety. The resulting patient safety knowledge continually informs improvement efforts such as: applying lessons learned from business and industry, adopting innovative technologies, educating providers and consumers, enhancing error reporting systems, and developing new economic incentives. Greek physician treating a patient, ca. 480-470 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris, France)Millennia ago, Hippocra...