Pediatric Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Setting

Meeting the Challenge of Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Care Setting

Until recently, most of the attention to patient safety and quality was focused on inpa-tient care. However, the last 20 years have seen rapid growth in the volume and complexity of procedures provided in ambulatory settings, so greater attention is now focused on ambulatory care and physician practices. Because healthcare is frequently delivered for episodic needs that involve multiple provide...

Meeting the Challenge of Patient Safety in the Ambulatory Care Setting

The safety of i.v. pentamidine administered in an ambulatory setting.

I.v. pentamidine is well known to cause severe multiorgan adverse effects and is usually given to hospitalized patients under close monitoring. The primary purpose of this retrospective quality assurance study is to assess the safety of administering i.v. pentamidine in the medical daycare unit (MDCU) for outpatients. Thirty-five outpatients infected with the HIV made 306 visits to the MDCU fro...

Patient Safety and Quality in Ambulatory Care

The majority of patient safety and quality research has focused on the inpatient setting, leaving a lack of intervention-based research in patient safety and quality for the ambulatory setting. There were an estimated 1.1 billion ambulatory visits in the US in 2010 with this number expecting to rise due to the shift from inpatient to outpatient care and the aging population. Given these numbers...

Setting priorities for patient safety.

BACKGROUND Current "flags" for adverse events (AEs) are biased towards those with serious outcomes, potentially leading to failure to address mundane common problems. AIM To provide a basis for setting priorities to improve patient safety by ranking adverse events by resource consumption as well as by outcome. This was done by classifying a set of AEs, according to how they may be prevented, ...