Risk management hospital

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Keywords Environmental risk assessment. Hospital effluents. Management and treatment, Pharmaceuticals... 

Most hospitals collect internal medication error data through a voluntary reporting mechanism. This system is used as the backbone of error reporting because it requires minimal resources for data collection and is supported by organizational risk management programs. Voluntary reporting is presumed to underreport total errors. It is widely believed that... 

Step 4 Communicate the proposed therapeutic interchange to members of the medical and hospital staffs. In general, input should be obtained from members of the laboratory, nursing staff, administration, risk management, key physician groups, and quality improvement staffs. 

Nonetheless, hospital-based clinical engineering departments—if adequately staffed and prepared— are often the best suited to the task of managing the equipment-related risks. To do so, however, also requires a thorough, organizational-wide understanding and awareness of each of the model s major elements and—especially—their interactions. Even if the hospital s risk management department is not famihar with Reason s model, they may be a tremendous resource in the development and dissemination of the overall plan. 

Hogan, H Olsen, S., Scobie, S. etal. (2008) What can we learn about patient safety from information sources within an acute hospital a step on the ladder of integrated risk management Quality and Safety in Health Care, 17(3), 209-215. 

Linda Kenney was successfully treated and, although severely traumatized, eventually recovered. The hospital passed the incident to the risk management department who sent her impersonal legalistic letters that distressed and angered her. Dr van Pelt was told not to communicate further with the family. Eventually however ... 

Occelli, P., Quenon, J.-L., Hubert, B., Kosdolek, T., Haarau, H., Pouchadon, M.-L., Amalberti, R., Auroy, Y, Salmi, L.-R., Matthieu Sibe, P, Pameix, P. and Michel, P. 2011. Development of a safety cultme Initial measurement at six hospitals in France. Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, 30(4), 42-7. 

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