Reviewing serious incidents

Implementing a Patient Safety Team to reduce serious incidents

The Division were experiencing a high number of serious incidents, and the Team felt that a good safety strategy would improve the quality of care given. Through multidisciplinary engagement they wanted to learn from these, encourage reporting and focus on a fair blame culture. The ultimate aim was to increase incident reporting, decrease serious incidents and improve quality. The key aim of th...

Increase in serious ecstasy-related incidents in the Netherlands.

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The framework leads to improvements including greater patient satisfaction and fewer serious incidents

Method of Serious Traffic Incidents Analysis with the Use of Stochastic Timed Petri Nets

One of the primary sources of information and inspiration in the creation of new, more secure solutions in traffic organization are the occurrences with most serious consequences called accidents (air), serious accidents (rail) or catastrophes (road, sea). Accidents investigation is usually conducted in terms of searching for the reasons of these events and ...

Asthma is a Serious Danger

  میزان مرگ و میر آسم طی دهه گذشته بطور چشمگیری تغییر کرده است. با مبتلا کردن ۱۵ میلیون آمریکایی میزان مرگ و میر در سال ۱۹۷۸، به رقم ۱۸۷۲ نفر و ۹ سال بعد، به بیش از ۴۰۰۰ نفر رسید. علت چنین افزایش چشمگیری روشن نیست. علل احتمالی عبارتند از کاهش ظرفیت تنفس، استفاده بیش از حد از داروهای استثنائی و استنباط غلط بیماران و نیز مراکز درمانی نسبت به شدت بیماری است. بررسی دقیق، معالجات مناسب و آموزش به ب...