TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 6. Principles of Patient Safety
A1  - Carbo, Alexander R.
A1  - Weingart, Saul N.
A2  - McKean, Sylvia C.
A2  - Ross, John J.
A2  - Dressler, Daniel D.
A2  - Brotman, Daniel J.
A2  - Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
PY  - 2012
T2  - Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
AB  - Patient  safety  is  defined  as  freedom  from  accidental  medical  injury.  Identifying  such  “adverse  medical  events”  as  a  source  of  human  suffering,  the  World  Health  Organization  in  2002  recognized  that  the  need  to  improve  patient  safety  was  a  fundamental  principle  of  all  health  systems.  The  concept  of  patient  safety  offers  a  positive  spin  on  the  more  emotionally  laden  concept  of  medical  error.  Traditionally  regarded  as  the  result  of  incompetent  or  poorly  prepared  or  motivated  clinicians,  medical  error  is  now  understood  as  a  product  of  poorly  designed  systems  of  care  that  contribute  to  harm.  The  modern  view  of  medical  error  is  that  patient  safety  can  be  produced  only  in  organizations  that  take  a  systems-based  approach  to  the  problem,  recognizing  the  inherent  limits  of  human  performance  and  the  need  to  engineer  the  care  delivery  process  in  a  way  that  is  based  on  scientific  principles.  Nowhere  is  this  issue  more  pressing  than  in  the  acute  care  hospital.  
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Y2  - 2024/04/18
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