RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 56191329
T1 Chapter 6. Principles of Patient Safety
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160389-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56191329
RD 2024/04/23
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.