Patient safety overview

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ADAPTED, IN PART, FROM PATIENT SAFETY INDICATORS OVERVIEW. AHRQ QUAUTY INDICATORS. FEBRUARY 2006. AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY, ROCKVILLE, MD. http //www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/psi overview.htm)... 

A second reason is that for all the books, reports, articles and Websites devoted to patient safety, there is still no straightforward overview of the field. The books that are available are mostly multi-author edited texts which, while they bring a rich diversity of perspective, are not primarily aimed at explaining the basic principles, characteristics and direction of the field. My aim has been to show the landscape of patient safety how it evolved, the research that underpins the area, the key conceptual issues that have to be addressed, and the practical action needed to reduce error and harm and, when harm does occur, to help those involved. 

National Patient Safety Agency 2004. Seven Steps to Patient Safety An Overview Guide (second edition). London NPSA. 

Glenn, B., An Overview of the Patient Safety Movement in Healthcare, Plastic Surgical Nursing, American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2006, pp. 785-793. 

Chapter Two provides a historical overview of the patient safety movement. 

Chapter Two, Error and Harm in Health Care, departs momentarily from the patient safety manifesto, as already mentioned, to provide background knowledge on current research in patient safety, the patient safety movement to date, and the reasons why today s health care system is so error-prone. Chapter Three, Understanding the Basics of Patient Safety, provides an overview of basic concepts and terms in the science of patient safety. These concepts and terms fe>rm the foundational touchpoints of the book. 

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Patient safety is a major concern in health care systems worldwide and has gained increasing attention since the Institute of Medicine published its report To Err Is Human in 1999 [1]. Based on extrapolations of study data, this report estimated that approximately 44,000-98,000 Americans die annually due to adverse events in health care. Patients with serious conditions, multimorbidity, and with intense and fragmented health care utilization, like end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, are at increased risk for suffering adverse events. It is thus vital that clinicians caring for ESRD patients make patient safety a top priority and cooperate on safety with their colleagues within and across other clinical specialties inside and outside the hospital. In this chapter, we will introduce the fundamental terms and concepts of patient safety and present readers an overview of essential data. We describe examples of important innovations which contribute to patient safety and briefly discuss future needs and developments. 

Table 1 gives an overview of dimensions of simulation and the characteristics of different simulators with examples. The chapter will focus on training models to improve patient safety in different aspects of vascular access (VA) creation. 

Patient safety depends directly on research. As described above, different methods are known in the field of dialysis access. Figure 2 gives an overview of research activities in basics, clinics epidemiology and health services. 

This publication is intended for health care professionals - nurses as well as doctors - and aims to raise the awareness of patient safety aspects, combining medical education with evidence-based medicine. After a general overview of the topic, an international panel of authors provides a diversified insight into important concepts and technical tricks essential to create and maintain a functional dialysis access. 

Separate subsections in a Clinical Summary are recommended to summarize safety in special groups and situations. These subsections may include brief overviews of safety data pertinent to individualizing therapy or patient management for... 

First, system dynamics models were created to model the contextual influences on the behavior of each component (patients, pharmaceutical companies, the FDA, and so on) in the pharmaceutical safety control structure. Then the models were combined to assist in understanding the behavior of the system as a whole and the interactions among the components. The complete analysis can be found in [43] and a shorter paper on some of the results [44]. An overview and some examples are provided here. 

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