Patient Safety and Error Management

Human error and patient safety: interdisciplinary course.

BACKGROUND The medical community has only recently begun to address how human error affects patient safety. In order to confront human error in medicine, there is a need to teach students who are entering the health professions how potential errors may manifest and train them to prevent or mitigate these problems. PURPOSE The objective is to describe a semester-long, interdisciplinary, human ...

Reducing error and improving patient safety.

Error Reporting and Injury Compensation: Advancing Patient Safety Through a State Patient Safety Organization

For a number of years, reducing the incidence of medical errors has been a major driver of U.S. health policy. Some states have created voluntary reporting systems to facilitate identification and analysis of medical errors and to support development of patient safety initiatives. In addition, the federal government has passed laws to encourage the development of voluntary reporting initiatives...

MRIsafety.com. MRI safety, bioeffects and patient management

Various types of intravascular and other types of coils, stents, and filters have been evaluated for safety with MR systems. Several of these demonstrated magnetic field interactions in association with scanners. Fortunately, the devices that exhibit positive magnetic field interactions typically become incorporated securely into the vessel wall primarily due to tissue ingrowth within approxima...

The Role of Human Resources Management in Risk and Safety Management of Patient (Case study: Dr. Mojibiyan Hospital, Yazd)

  Introduction: reduction of possibility risk in hospitals is an important and vital issue for improving the quality of health care. This research was conducted with the aim of identifying, analyzing and prioritizing risks using the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) method, providing solutions for reducing or controlling identified risks and examining the effective basics of risk ...