Patient Safety in Emergency Departments: Improvement Is Possible

Promoting patient safety and preventing medical error in emergency departments.

An estimated 108,000 people die each year from potentially preventable iatrogenic injury. One in 50 hospitalized patients experiences a preventable adverse event. Up to 3% of these injuries and events take place in emergency departments. With long and detailed training, morbidity and mortality conferences, and an emphasis on practitioner responsibility, medicine has traditionally faced the chal...

Assessment of Patient Safety Dimensions in Emergency Departments in Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences Applying Operational Planning

Background and purpose: Emergency department is one of the most important and risky areas in the hospital. Adherence to safety standards significantly contributes to increased patient satisfaction and service quality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the patient safety dimensions in emergency departments in educational hospitals affiliated with Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences app...

Patient satisfaction with emergency departments.

teamwork improvement in emergency trauma departments

background: interprofessional teamwork is considered as the key to improve the quality of patient management in critical settings such as trauma emergency departments, but it is not fully conceptualized in these areas to guide practice. the aim of this article is to explore interprofessional teamwork and its improvement strategies in trauma emergency departments. materials and methods: particip...

Designing patient flow in emergency departments

Designing patient flow in emergency departments Yariv N. Marmor a , Boaz Golany b , Shlomo Israelit c & Avishai Mandelbaum b a Mayo Clinic, Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, USA b Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, 32000, Israel c Rambam Health Care Campus, Emergency Department, Haifa, 31096, I...