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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Preventable Harm"”.
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Medicines Management after Hospital Discharge: Patients’ Personal and Professional Networks
… of medicines between providers can cause preventable harm to patients, yet there is insufficient evidence of the structure and function of the medicines management system that patients experience. This research used a mixed-methods social network analysis to determine the structure, …
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Access to Life: Advanced Heart Failure Therapies for Undocumented Immigrants
… reveals how current policies institutionalize preventable harm. Contrasting these failures with successful state-level expansions for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), the work proposes actionable solutions to redress inequities exacerbated by immigration policies. The findings underscore that …
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Organisational and systems factors impacting on patient safety in acute care organisations: lessons from four multi-site research studies
Background Patient safety is concerned with preventable harm in healthcare, a subject that became a focus for study in the UK in the late 1990s. How to improve patient safety, presented both a practical and a research challenge in the early 2000s, leading to the eleven publications presented in …
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The Victim-Patient’s Search for Redress: Evaluating Responses to Patient Safety Incidents in Nigeria
… science and technology, the occurrence of preventable harm in healthcare settings continues to pose substantial challenges, undermining the fundamental responsibility of healthcare systems to “do no harm”. With a PSI rate of 42.8%, Nigeria faces a malpractice crisis that demands an urgent, …
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The Role of Common Risk- Assessment Tools in Assessing Patient Safety Risks
… our health and prolong our life rather than harm or end it. Yet healthcare, in comparison to other safety critical industries, has a high degree of preventable harm. Many scholars believe a different or new risk assessment tool may improve patient safety. This dissertation examines the role …
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Implementing CAST and Designing the STAMP-Enhanced Learning And Reporting System
… Around 6% of patients are impacted by preventable harm. Adverse events recur because incident reporting systems (IRSs) are not effective and causes are not addressed. In-depth incident analyses, in particular, often focus on frontline human error and are blame-laden. All IRS functions, …
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Modeling of ICU nursing workload to inform better staffing decisions
… Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's to eliminate preventable harm in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Many medical publications suggest nursing workload as a major contributor to patient safety. However, BIDMC was not using any tool to measure nursing workload, and as a result, nurse staffing …
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The Relationship between Race and Ethnicity and Serious Safety Events in Hospitalized Patients
… mix, site of care location and SSE level of harm; and 3) what factors increase or decrease the odds of experiencing higher levels of harm or death from an SSE.</p> <p><strong>Background.</strong> Preventable harm and death in health care is a concern for all, but structural barriers and …
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Diagnosing intensive care units and hyperplane cutting for design of optimal production systems
… Care Unit (ICU) effect the likelihood the preventable harm will happen to a patient in the ICU. Two years of electronic medical records from seven adult ICUs totalling 77 beds at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) were analysed. Our approach is based on several new ideas. First, …
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Patient safety culture in Irish healthcare: a mixed-methods investigation
Introduction: Medical error is a leading cause of preventable harm worldwide. Patient safety culture has been described as the way in which members of a healthcare organisation think about and prioritise safety. The patient safety culture in a healthcare organisation can be affected by numerous …