Health Care Sustainability Metrics: Building A Safer, Low-Carbon Health System

To Err Is Human : Building a Safer Health System Linda

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Is health care getting safer?

1205 ANALYSIS Patient safety has been high on the national and international agenda in health care for almost a decade. In the United Kingdom, reviews of case records have shown that over 10% of patients experience an adverse event while in hospital, 1 2 a figure reflected in similar studies around the world. 3 Considerable efforts have been made to improve safety, and it is natural to ask whet...

Building health care system capacity: training health care professionals in disaster preparedness health care coalitions.

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to learn from the experiences of well-established, disaster preparedness-focused health care coalition (HCC) leaders for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improved delivery of disaster-health principles to health professionals involved in HCCs. This report describes current HCC education and training needs, challenges, and promising practices. METHODS ...

Designing safer health care through responsive regulation.

Self-regulation by the health professions, while improving, is no longer enough; external drivers for safer health care include governments, funders and consumers. Enforced self-regulation is often more promising than a "command and control" strategy. Research evidence on the responsive regulatory pyramid and its options offers lessons for health care policy makers and managers. Start at the ba...

[Health care reform and the Brazilian Public Health Care System: sustainability issues].