Health innovation for patient safety improvement

Health innovation for patient safety improvement.

Medication error has been identified as a major factor affecting patient safety. Many innovative efforts such as Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE), a Pharmacy Information System, automated dispensing machines and Point of Administration Systems have been carried out with the aim of improving medication safety. However, areas remain that require urgent attention. One main area will be th...

Fostering innovation, advancing patient safety: the kidney health initiative.

To respond to the serious and underrecognized epidemic of kidney disease in the United States, the US Food and Drug Administration and the American Society of Nephrology have founded the Kidney Health Initiative-a public-private partnership designed to create a collaborative environment in which the US Food and Drug Administration and the greater kidney community can interact to optimize the ev...

Framework for patient safety research and improvement.

Lapses in patient safety represent a significant global problem that results in preventable morbidity, mortality, and costs of care. In the 1999 landmark report To Err Is Human, the Institute of Medicine shocked the healthcare industry with estimates that up to 98 000 people die because of medical errors each year in the United States.1 This glaring report was amplified by a 2003 RAND study tha...

Section VI: Tools for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Chapter 44. Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Knowledge Diffusion to Workplace Safety and Health Improvement

The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of Workplace safety and Health Knowledge diffusion. As workplace safety is becoming a global issue in the competitiveness of the business environment, knowledge diffusion model to workplace safety is found a mandatory tool to create awareness of the society and conceptual model is developed. Literature review was conducted in collecting...