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The National Patient Safety Goals is a quality and patient safety improvement program established by the Joint Commission in 2003. The NPSGs were established to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety. [1] [2]
Goal 1: Identify patients correctly. Goal 2: Improve effective communication. Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications. Goal 4: Ensure safe surgery. Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections. Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls. [2] [4]
Patient safety work product includes any data, reports, records, memoranda, analyses (such as root cause analyses), or written or oral statements (or copies of any of this material), which are assembled or developed by a provider for reporting to a PSO and are reported to a PSO; or are developed by a patient safety organization for the conduct ...
However, scientific patient safety research by Annegret Hannawa, and others, has shown that ineffective communication can lead to patient harm. [29] [30] [31] Communication regarding patient safety can be classified into two categories: the prevention of adverse events and the response to adverse events. Effective communication can help in the ...
A patient safety taxonomy was developed to classify data on patient safety problems. Prevalence studies conducted on patient harm in ten developing countries. A WHO Collaborating Centre was established to develop and disseminate safety solutions. [5] The WHO Draft Guidelines on Adverse Event Reporting and Learning Systems. [6]
SOFA was designed to provide a simple daily score, that indicates how the status of the patient evolves over time. Glasgow Coma Scale (also named GCS) is designed to provide the status for the central nervous system. It is often used as part of other scoring systems. FOUR score - 17-point scale for the assessment of level of consciousness. Aims ...
Physical harm Dependence Social harm Drug Mean Physical harm [1] Acute harm Chronic harm Intravenous harm Mean Dependence Pleasure Psychological Physical Mean Social harm Intoxication Social harm Health-care costs; Heroin: 2.78 2.8 2.5 3.0 3.00 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.54 1.6 3.0 3.0 Cocaine: 2.33 2.0 2.0 3.0 2.39 3.0 2.8 1.3 2.17 1.8 2.5 2.3 Barbiturates ...
Risk is the lack of certainty about the outcome of making a particular choice. Statistically, the level of downside risk can be calculated as the product of the probability that harm occurs (e.g., that an accident happens) multiplied by the severity of that harm (i.e., the average amount of harm or more conservatively the maximum credible amount of harm).