Healthcare system error: beyond apology

Healthcare system error: beyond apology.

When a healthcare professional commits an error that results in an adverse patient outcome, it is increasingly considered appropriate that an apology should be made to the harmed person. 2 Such an apology benefits both the health professional and the patient, and serves to address the considerable emotional burden that accompanies this wrenching aspect of practice (see page 249). The process of...

Beyond apocalypse and apology: a moral defense of abortion.

The movement to preserve and advance reproductive freedom is suffering the consequences of a great victory. The establishment of the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade was a monumental step that changed the lives of American women. Girls grow up today under the mantle of Roe, never having known a world in which illegal, unsafe , degrading and sometimes fatal abortions were the norm...

Apology

Addressing human error within the Irish healthcare system.

Research shows that human error, as opposed to mechanical failure, is the major causal factor of industrial and transportation accidents. The same is true in healthcare. This paper briefly discusses five human error reduction methods that have been adapted from high reliability organisations, such as aviation, for use in the healthcare industry. However, before the widespread adoption of these ...

Uncertainty beyond sampling error.

Statistical analysis of research results mainly uses confidence intervals and hypothesis tests to capture the uncertainty rising from our study being on a sample of participants drawn from a much larger population, in which our interest mainly lies. But beyond the issue of sampling variation there are other sources of uncertainty that may be even more important to consider. In measurement, a di...