Patient Safety Culture proactive

The objective of risk management and a safety culture should be a proactive treatment of clinical risk and therefore minimisation of adverse incidents arising from HIT. Nevertheless this should not detract from the notion that one can learn a great deal from analysing incidents or near misses. A patient safety incident is an event or circumstance which could have resulted, or did result, in unnecessary harm to a patient [22]. The ongoing study of incident reports can help identify common types of problems [23] and incident reporting has been cited as one of the major steps in improving the safety of HIT [24]. 

Patient Safety Indicators as Tools for Proactive Safety Management and Safety Culture Improvement... 

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