Patient Safety and Quality in Ambulatory Care
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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, the potential harm in outpatient medicine is immense. According to the Colorado and Utah Medical Practices Study, an estimated 75,000 hospitalizations per year are due to preventable adverse events in the ambulatory setting. The most common types of ambulatory adverse events were medication events, surgical events, or diagnostic adverse events. Safety and quality principles, such as just culture, infection prevention, event identification and analysis, and communication and medication safety, have been researched for inpatients and can be modified for the outpatient setting. On the other hand, differences between caring for inpatients and outpatients can make other safety methodology less relevant (Table 26-1). Outpatient care encompasses a wide variety of patients, acuity of care, and health care settings. Outpatient practices can range from a single provider to a Patient Safety and Quality in Ambulatory Care
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